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 …
Continue reading...Refinement of the GIS-supported compensatory land registry in Oranienburg
As an agency for preparatory and binding urban land-use planning, the Urban Planning Department in Oranienburg is regularly confronted with the task of making available compensatory areas of land during construction and development projects in compliance with nature conservation intervention regulations (A+E measures). As a backer of a large proportion of the plans for urban …
Continue reading...Blankenfelde Botanical Park
Blankenfelde Botanical Park is located in the north of the district of Pankow, and acts as a transition to open fields. More than half of its c. 34 hectares belongs to the Blankenfelde Landscape Conservation Area (LSG). Situated on a former sewage field, the Botanical Park was founded in around 1910 by Albert Brodersen as …
Continue reading...Visit by South Korean Planning Colleagues
Representatives of the National Institute of Environmental Research and the South Korean Ministry of Environment were informed about German and European environmental legislation and its execution in planning practice at FUGMANN JANOTTA bdla. Using examples of various projects concerned with themes of structural landscape planning, strategic environmental assessment, intervention regulations and urban open space planning, …
Continue reading...Lichterfelde-Süd: urban planning workshop completed
The winner of the urban planning workshop in Lichterfelde-Süd was announced on Friday 19 September. The Amsterdam-based Casanova + Hernandez architects convinced the jury of politicians, urban planners and investors with their third design, which was voted as the unanimous winner. FUGMANN JANOTTA bdla saw the whole process through organizationally; the bureau advises the Steglitz-Zehlendorf …
Continue reading...Bureau trip to the Ice Age Feldberger lakes
Our annual bureau trip this year led us to the village of Thomsdorf near the Carwitzer Lake in Boitzenburger Land. After our arrival we saw away the evening over a bonfire and a delicious barbeque buffet. The next morning we began a bike tour through the forest, lake and open field landscape of the Feldberger …
Continue reading...Helsingforser Square has been inaugurated!
The construction phase started in October 2012 and in November 2013 the square was handed over to the public. With the final remaining work completed, the “wooden boxes” in place, and a lush planting scheme now completed, the square was ready for its inauguration on 24 July 2014. With a large number of interested citizens …
Continue reading...bdla representatives on landscape trip
The bdla Landscape Planning Study Group has returned from this year’s annual landscape trip to Transylvania. On an eight-day trip, the group of twelve participants travelled to the exceptionally well-preserved, historic peasant landscape of churches and castles in the heart of Romania. In addition to visits to the cities of Brașov, Mediaș, Sighișoara and Sibiu, …
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