Expansions to 380 kV high-voltage overhead lines between Federal States require approval as part of a federal planning procedure in accordance with the Grid Expansion Act [Netzausbaugesetz]. Typically the first stage at which public interest groups and the general public become involved is the scoping conference, at which the approval authority, the Federal Grid Agency …
Continue reading...Duisburg-Wedau – A new garden city with lake view
The former railway yard Duisburg-Wedau, a site of 90 hectares, will be developed into a new attractive housing and business area. In the end of June 2015 the city of Duisburg, DB Immobilien Region West and BEG NRW organized a two-day planning workshop with six offices/teams to sketch out ideas for the urban development of …
Continue reading...2016 Company Run
Our firm once again took part in the annual company run this year. Our team of runners this year consisted of Sonja, Saara, Lisa, Markus, Jonas and Henry. This was the largest team ever entered by the firm, and it finished in 535th place. The FUGMANN JANOTTA und PARTNER team will be competing in 2017 …
Continue reading...Zukunftsstadt 2030+
„WELCOME. A region forms its network.” With this motto, the office and surrounding municipalities of Gransee start into the first phase of the competition. The application, designed by FJP, convinced the jury – 51 out of 168 applicants were chosen, one of them being Gransee. After 12 months of intensive work with the residents …
Continue reading...Framework Nordsteimke
Commissioned by the city of Wolfsburg and in cooperation with Herwarth + Holz (urban planning), Hoffmann-Leichter (traffic planning) and PST (rainwater management), a framework plan for the biggest development area in terms of residential construction is created until Fall 2016. Overall, up to 2.500 new housing units will emerge southeast of the city center within …
Continue reading...North-South Green Corridor – Olympic Park München
Commissioned by the city of Munich, a zoning concept will be developed for the former S-Bahn and industrial railway track west of the Olympic Park. Prospectively, a green corridor for protected species as well as a green leisure route for all generations will be set up. The concept zoning and the future use of will …
Continue reading...The three-field agriculture system
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 …
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