Situated at the northern edge of the district of Pankow, Blankenfelde-Pankow Botanical Park acts as a transition to the open fields of Berlin-Brandenburg. It is an area of landscape protected as part of a 2014-15 UEP scheme devised to carry out improvements to the ecological potential of landscape conservation areas. To these ends, a three-field …
Continue reading...Building progress at the Park at the City Wall
Just in time for the end of the year, the first visible details of the redesign can already be seen at the Park at the City Wall: the newly resurfaced network of trails and new park furniture offer new accentuations to the park. The next step before the arrival of winter will be to plant …
Continue reading...Grazing the Hönower Weiherkette
An informative event about the proposed programme of extensive grazing took place at the Bücherwurmschule after-school care centre in the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf on 13 October 2015. Conceptually integrated within the overall management and development plans for the landscape conservation area, it aimed to involve the residents and users of the area in the …
Continue reading...Beautiful urban landscapes?
Contribution to the 7th Hessian Conference for Urban Development Beautiful landscape is both an ideal and a problem. Judgements of beauty tend to be seen as purely subjective and arbitrary; they must therefore always withdraw from “objective” material interests. Beauty, however, alongside other criteria for the quality of the lived environment, plays a significant role …
Continue reading...Groundbreaking ceremony at the Gransee Park at the City Wall
On 15 August 2014 the start of construction for the Park at the City Wall was celebrated in fitting style. The construction process – including the completion management – is scheduled for completion by the spring of 2015. As part of the construction process an asphalted bicycle lane and footpath will be created along the …
Continue reading...Living in the Wrangelkiez – 1st prize
Together with Arnold and Gladisch Architects, FUGMANN JANOTTA bdla received the 1st prize for the ‘Wrangelstraße 30-32, 10997 Berlin – Reconstruction of a Residential and Commercial Building with Interior Courtyard Design’ competition. The Evangelical Church of central Berlin would like to combine affordable living space with social usage. Around 40 flats for rent and two …
Continue reading...Martin Janotta called to the ‘Advisory Committee for Space Development’!
Following the recommendation of the bdla, Martin Janotta has, since January 2015, been a member for one legislative term of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI)’s ‘Advisory Committee for Space Development’. In this role he has been active in the ‘Energy Transition and Space Development at Regional Level’ working group. Further information …
Continue reading...Hot off the press! INA brochure is complete
After three months of preparation and consolidation the brochure for the Lieberoser Heide International Nature Exhibition (INA) has finally been printed. The aim of the booklet is to promote the INA, whilst at the same time attracting the attention of potential investors and sponsors. On behalf of the Lieberoser Heide INA municipal committee, Martin Janotta …
Continue reading...Mediation at FUGMANN JANOTTA
Conflicts and emotional encounters are part of our profession and are what make it so lively – now we have the professional tools to smooth over our differences! Our senior team leader for landscape planning, Bettina Dickson completed her training as a mediator (in accordance with the Federal Association for Mediation’s qualification standard 208 h) …
Continue reading...Urban horses – article in ‘Landschaftsarchitekten’ journal
In the current edition of ‘Landschaftsarchitekten’, the journal of the Union of German Landscape Architects, an article about urban nature conservation through grazing in the context of urban development in Berlin has been published. The article presents an overview of the conflict between, on the one hand, the need for space in urban development, and …
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