A24 Landschaft

Creating singularity through landscape architecture The Berlin landscape architecture office A24 Landschaft was founded in 2005 by Steffan Robel. Its success has derived from projects that orchestrate the interplay between city and landscape, its designs for which have received national and international awards. The international team comprises around 20 architects and landscape architects, who work […]

The Waller Sand Park in Bremen (Germany) transforms flood protection into liveable spaces for the city‘s population: instead of a structure with a barrier effect, the renovation of the protective structures has created multifunctional, usable open spaces that are adapted to the existing historical structure and contemporary public life. The urban dyke construction illustrates how […]

The new Volkspark Neu-Meerbeck Moers transformed a formerly fragmented conglomerate of partly enclosed open spaces into a coherent green nucleus and active center for the neighbourhood of Meerbeck. A ring-shaped park promenade connects sports facilities, a cemetery and natural woodland to form a new public open space for the formerly barred Meerbeck district. Sports facilities […]

A participatory agricultural park as a new center The city of Weinstadt, which consists of five individual communities, has found a central and vibrant open space with the Bürgerpark Grüne Mitte after years of urban fragmentation. The 10 ha hybrid park combines existing agricultural land with contemporary open spaces for leisure activities and a wide […]

The Waller Sand Park in Bremen (Germany) transforms flood protection into liveable spaces for the city‘s population: instead of a structure with a barrier effect, the renovation of the protective structures has created multifunctional, usable open spaces that are adapted to the existing historical structure and contemporary public life. The urban dyke construction illustrates how […]

A participatory agricultural park as a new center With the Bürgerpark Grüne Mitte, a special new center has been created for the polycentric wine town consisting of five individual communities: A park hybrid of agriculture and communal park space. The 10-hectare Bürgerpark Grüne Mitte consists partly of commercially used areas for growing fruit and vegetables […]

Combining agriculture, private gardens, residential areas, recreation, and public open green spaces, Participation Park Weinstadt sets an innovative example of layered multifunctional land use, providing a new urban park of local significance along the river Rems. The design was driven by active engagement with the local community and from defining what it means to incorporate […]

Sondern got a new face: The restructuring of the area between the railway station and the lake in the village of Sondern enhances the tourist infrastructure along the shore of the lake while fulfilling its aspirations to establish a recreational destination for decades to come. One critical element was minimizing the barrier effect of the […]

Infrastructure meets urban design Waller Sand Park shows how the refurbishment and aesthetically ambitious redesign of a flood protection dike can transform infrastructure into multifunctional and ecologically enriching space for a diverse urban population. Occupying a spit of land in the Weser River, the park forms the outer boundary of Überseestadt, Bremen’s inner-city development zone. The […]

The forecourt of the educational forum Urania was reconceived as an open entrance connecting the institution with Berlin’s City West. Hosting around 1,000 events and over 250,000 visitors a year, Urania is an important institution for transferring scientific knowledge to the broader public. The task was to create a space that communicated the magic of […]

Eutin’s new waterfront shows how a city that had turned its back on its public spaces and inherent natural beauty can reinvent itself as a social centre through targeted interventions in the landscape. This project gives a vibrant shape to life in a small town. It connects the cultural legacy with modern planning by means […]

The State Horticultural Show Landau 2015 represents a model conversion project encompassing more than 27 hectares of land and a budget of 13 million Euros. The landscape architecture incorporates the unique features of the Vorderpfalz region, thus forging a close association with the location. It provides a framework for the future development of a new […]

With the 2016 State Horticultural Show the city of Eutin has shown a good example of how a city that already benefits from an extraordinarily favorable location between two lakes can significantly enhance its identity through targeted interventions. Attractive, useable open spaces and new networks of paths at Großer Eutiner See bring the city “back […]

Schwäbisch Gmünd, a mid-sized town in southern Germany, has engineered a far-reaching urban redevelopment process resulting in a new green heart for the city. This comprehensive project has structurally reoriented the inner city, including its traffic patterns. Historical urban structures were re-exposed, new urban axes were formed and expansive public spaces were built. A new […]