City 3.0 – Challenges of open space planning in changing cities

At the 5th KANN Dialogue at the Café Moscow in Berlin, Harald Fugmann presented the consequences and new challenges of open space planning in the face of densifying cities. Using the example of current urban development concepts (Framework planning Berlin Heinersdorf, GoWest – former Reemtsma site in Berlin-Schmargendorf, and the Gropiusstadt in Berlin-Neukölln), he illustrates …

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Moabit Freight Station Memorial opening

On 11 June 2017, the Moabit Freight Station Memorial was opened in Berlin-Moabit between Quitzowstraße and Ellen-Epstein-Straße. The site commemorates the deportation of more than 30,000 Jews from the former Moabit freight station to the extermination camps. The preliminary competition was won by the Berlin artists’ collective Raumlabor. The design provides for a grove of …

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