25 years ago, the German Urban Planning Award Städtebaupreis was initiated to promote future-oriented planning culture and urban architecture. The prize is awarded for urban planning projects realized in the Federal Republic of Germany in two different categories: beside the urban planning award, a special prize is granted for innovative activities, strategies and procedures in the field of urban construction and planning. The award ceremony took place on 16 November 2006. Since then, an exhibition of the distinguished projects has been touring Germany and is now put on display on a more extensive scale by AedesLand at Savignyplatz in Berlin. The project boards of this exhibition are complemented by explanatory pictures, publications, films and spatial components.
The German Urban Planning Award 2006 was awarded for:
The planning and design of the new urban quarter Scharnhauser Park, Ostfildern by the practice Janson + Wolfrum, Architecture and Urban Planning, Stuttgart. The project successfully managed an exemplary integration of landscape and modern architecture, creating an urban district that will undoubtedly achieve an instant identification among its inhabitants, old and young.
Distinguished by a honourable mention were:
- the city of Ulm for the project Neu Mitte, a daring endeavour to reconnect historic parts of the inner city, which had been separated after the end of the war by a traffic route, by means of high-quality buildings and squares as well as an exemplary underground parking garage.
- the trade-fair city of München-Riem, for integrating sustainability and forward thinking into a convincing overall concept which was related to the general public through a wonderful succession of spaces and a mediating project support.
- the Hanseatic city of Wismar, which managed to focus the energies of its citizenry and to find an appropriate balance between conservation and development in some sensitive areas of its historic city context.
The special prize was awarded equally to:
- the project “Zwischenstadt” [intermediate city] a study by Wolfgang Christ and Lars Bölling, Bauhaus University Weimar on the notions of a “connecting” urban space developed by Thomas Sieverts.
- "Planwerk Innenstadt” [planning work city centre] Berlin by the city senate’s building director Hans Stimmann and his team.
Honourable mentions in the category of special prize went to:
- the cross-country project of “Grünmetropole” [green metropolis](D, NL, B) and to the city of Leipzig, “Bürger bauen ihre Stadt” [a city constructed by its citizens]. The 8 awarded works were selected from 92 submitted projects. The prize is initiated by the Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung [German academy for urban planning and landscaping]. It is sponsored by the Wüstenrot Foundation Ludwigsburg and is under the patronage of Dr Christian Ude, president of the German Association of Cities and Towns [Deutscher Städtetag]. A publication by Jovis Verlag entitled “Stadt bauen” will be available for the exhibition.
Diese Ausstellung wurde ermöglicht mit der großzügigen Unterstützung von:
