"To heighten awareness of the value of a high-quality built environment, of the value of improving the quality of public spaces […]": according to the architect Jürgen Minkus, Chairman of the advisory council for urban planning and layout of the City Council of Cologne, this must be the paramount objective for developing our cities - Cologne included. The path forward is indicated by an interdisciplinary planning workshop on Cologne's Ringstraßen (ring roads): What makes it possible for us to genuinely experience the Ringstraßen within the urban structure? Discussed on the basis of this question is the character of the Ringstraßen and the qualities that are called for if they are to be strengthened as components of local identity.
The exhibition deals with the dialogic preparatory processes as well as the results of the planning workshop, with three conceptual proposals by Ackers Partner Städtebau, Braunschweig with Kuttner+Kahl, SBI; the Team Office Regina Poly, Berlin with Ulla Luther, Kleihues+Kleihues, Runge+Küchler; and Pesch Partner - pp a | s, Stuttgart with Agence Ter, Brilon Bondzio Weiser.
We cordially invite you to the Public Debate:
PROFILING THE EUROPEAN CITY - NOTES FROM COPENHAGEN AND COLOGNE
Time: 3. Februar 2012, 16.30h – 18.30h
Venue: ANCB, Christinenstr. 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Cultural and urban planning strategies for the European City of tomorrow will be presented and discussed through case-studies concepts and projects from Cologne and Copenhagen. Through urban planning and architecture interventions European cities are afforded opportunities to strengthen the sense of belonging of their inhabitants, by reinforcing those characteristics that communicate identity and the entity of the city. With a focus on the theme of public space, its user-oriented participation, and the design of quality, mobility and orientation, Dietmar Leyk will moderate a discussion with Bjarne Hammer, Bernd Streitberger and Albert Speer.
Welcome:
Hans-Jürgen Commerell / Kristin Feireiss
Presentations:
Bernd Streitberger, Head of Department Planning and Building, Cologne
Bjarne Hammer, Founding Partner Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, Aarhus
Discussion (Moderation: Dietmar Leyk)
Panel: Bernd Streitberger, Bjarne Hammer and Albert Speer
Peers: Michael Großmann, SBI, Hamburg; Karin Kuttner, Kuttner + Kahl landscape architects, Hamburg; Regina Poly, office regina poly, Berlin; Prof. Walter Ackers and Sandra Pechmann, Ackers Partner Städtebau, Braunschweig
The event takes place on the occasion of the exhibition openings of Give More and Kölner Ringstraßen - it will be in german and english language.
Sponsors
Stadt Köln, Städtebaulicher Masterplan Innenstadt Köln, Pesch Partner Architektur Stadtplanung GmbH, office regina poly, Ackers Partner Städtebau, DOM Publishers, Kuttner & Kahl Landschaftsarchitekten, SBI, AS+P, Agence Ter Landschaftsarchitekten, kleihues+kleihues, Brilon Bondzio Weiser GmbH, Zumtobel, carpetconcept, Busch-Jaeger, AXOR Hansgrohe
Diese Ausstellung wurde ermöglicht mit der großzügigen Unterstützung von:
