Design: Peter Eisenman, architect and Buro Happold, engineer Location: Berlin, Germany Competition: 1997 Construction: 2004 Area: 19,000m² Cost: €25 million. Memorials in general have always been a powerful storytelling landscapes as well as a political statements, usually accompanied with conventional symbols in order to be understood by the majority. Sometimes, designers are able to find […]
Design: Peter Eisenman, architect and Buro Happold, engineer Location: Berlin, Germany Competition: 1997 Construction: 2004 Area: 19,000m² Cost: €25 million. Memorials in general have always been a powerful storytelling landscapes as well as a political statements, usually accompanied with conventional symbols in order to be understood by the majority. Sometimes, designers are able to find […]
Landscape Architecture: Wes & partner Landschaftsarchitekten Project: Square of Unity Competition: 1. prize Design: 1998
Landscape Architecture: Rehwaldt Landschaftsarchitekten Area: 1,3 ha Budget: 1,1 Mio EUR Design competition: 2005, 1st prize Completion: 2008, German Landscape Architecture Prize 2009 Client: Senate Department of Urban Development, Berlin The prominent geometrical urban space in Berlin city centre, situated between traffic axes and buildings, has been strengthened. Existing trees gave reason to develop […]
Landscape Architecture: Rehwaldt Location: Berlin / Germany Area: 6.5 ha Total construction amount: 740,000 EUR Competition: 2009, first prize Realization: 2010 Developed by: Local government of Friedrichshain by – Krotz Fort, Berlin SÜDLICHE LOHMÜHLENINSEL is located in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin. The island is 600 meter long, 100 meter wide, and was sprung up with the […]
Landscape Architecture: Bureau B+B Location: Waldpark, Potsdam, Germany Project period: 1998–2001 Text and photos: Bureau B+B Like many other former East German cities, Potsdam underwent, some ten years ago, a programme of large-scale urban renewal and expansion. In many cities such programmes had resulted in faceless newbuild, so Potsdam decided to take a different […]
Landscape Architecture: Bernard & Sattler Project Name: Garden at the Representation of Hesse in Berlin Year of Construction: 2007 Client: State Hesse, represented by Hess. Baumanagement Area: 4.200 m² Budget: 140.000 € Location: Ebertstraße/ In den Ministergärten, 10117 Berlin, Germany The site at the corner of Ebertstrasse and ’In den Ministergärten’ has had a changeful […]
We are very happy that we can show you new fabulous photos of park „Am Gleisdreieck“ in Berlin, that opened it’s gates to the public about a week ago. Enjoy! Landscape Architecture: Atelier LOIDL Project was rewarded with the Silver Urban Quality Award 2011. Location: Berlin, Germany Completed: 2011 Text: LOIDL Photos: Julien Lanoo […]
Project: Südgelände Nature Park Landscape Architecture: Odious Location: Berlin, Germany Design, Construction: 2008 – 2009 Photos: Stephanie Braconnier and Jedidiah Gordon-Moran Text: Gruen Berlin The Tempelhof switchyard, a typical derelict railway site, was gradually scaled down after the Second World War and completely shut down in 1952. In the space of just 50 […]
Landscape Architecture: Planorama Landschaftsarchitektur (Maik Böhmer and Gerd Holzwarth) Location: Berlin – Charlottenburg Completed: March 2013 Area: 1.140 square meters Costs: ca. 300.000 EUR Client: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) Project Team: Maik Böhmer, Ulf Schrader, Sebastian Meyer, Krischan Payne Photos: Hanns Joosten The Berggruen Museum has been housed in […]
From the Landwehr Canal near Potsdamer Platz extending to the Yorck Bridges in the South, the ten hectares spanning western part of the Park am Gleisdreieck was built until spring 2013.
The urban quarters south of Frankfurter Allee are low-density areas with a high green rate („green islands“). Small squares or green spaces accentuate the district and become sites with high amenity values. The design concept aimed to strengthen these characteristics and to enhance a distinctive identity ...
Here, in the atrium of the Academy, plants thrive in an unusual environment – with no direct contact to the earth, little natural light, and artificial irrigation ... Most of these plants have a special connection to Jewish life. Some, for example, bear the names of Jewish people, others play a role in the Jewish holidays. And some of the plants’ folkloric names refer to anti-Jewish sentiments.
The Märkisches Viertel is an aged urbanistic vision of the 1960´s. Through the decades the neighborhood experienced a lot of changes and adoptions that were uncoordinated and without any planning purpose. The idea of a networked and cohesive space continuum is not readable anymore, particularly because of the different kind of built-in components and surface materials ...
Measuring two hectares, the Flaschenhals accomplishes the Park am Gleisdreieck as third part of the design. It extends from Kreuzberg and Schöneberg till the boarders of Tempelhof.
Side by side to the historic center of Potsdam, lies the green island “Freundschaftsinsel” (Island of Friendship). The island is defined by the junction of two arms of the river Havel. Nowadays, the island is one of the most popular parks in the historic parkland of Potsdam ...
relais Landschaftsarchitekten: The Written Garden / relais Landschaftsarchitekten
Gardens are symbolic spaces, with connotations on many levels. Gardens can be read – and can therefore also be written. This garden addresses the pattern of relationships between the semiotic tradition of landscape architecture and perception of the visitor.
The starting point for this theory was in the planning […]
relais Landschaftsarchitekten: In the course of its redevelopment as the ‘Humboldt Forum’, one of Berlin’s most prominent and significant urban locations is temporally transformed into a public open space. The landscape architecture deals with this transitional situation thematically, formally and materially. The design concept aims to create an open system, which can integrate the most […]
relais Landschaftsarchitekten: Maselakepark is the defining element in the new park which accompanies the River Havel along 1.1km of its shoreline. The park forms a significant section of the Spandau Water City’s Riverside Walk. Preexisting qualities in the location constituted the starting points of the design. These were underlined by specific landscape architectural interventions to […]
relais Landschaftsarchitekten: The theme of temporality, which is omnipresent in landscape architecture, has a great influence with regard to the way historic cemeteries are dealt with. As great as their significance and effect has been on history, ageing and the preservation of memory, a cemetery’s functionality must also be based on current sepulchral culture and […]
gruppe F was responsible for planning the riverbank promenades in Berlin‘s Government District, covering everything from framework planning through to construction. Major components in this work were an overarching design concept, with rules on materials and equipment, the analysis of general everyday and tourist requirements and concrete designs for berths for shipping, stairways and tourism […]