by Harrie van Helmond, Jannie Landa, Tom van Duuren, | Jun 17, 2022 | Architecture & Urban development, Categorieën, News
Largely unnoticed by the experts, a special feature in the field of housing stands in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, a city of about 250,000 inhabitants: a Dutch ‘Bosco vertical’ – but not for rich residents, like the world-famous building in Milan, but...
by Helga Fassbinder | Jun 15, 2022 | Architecture & Urban development, Neues, News
Contribution to the Conference of the Deutscher Werkbund Berlin on ‘New Social Housing’, May 2022 As architects and urban planners we design and build products that should still fulfil their function for at least 100 years. Of course, we cannot give an...
by Inken Baller | Mar 25, 2022 | Architecture & Urban development, News
The Relationship between City and Nature in History Inken Baller Fig.1 Peter Joseph Lenné around 1850, portrait by Carl Joseph Begas Fig.3 Landwehrkanal 2019 Photo: Inken Baller Fig.4 Landwehrkanal 2019 Photo: Inken Baller In order to limit this very broad topic,...
by Irene Zluwa | Feb 17, 2022 | Architecture & Urban development, News
It is a generally accepted requirement that green buildings combined with photovoltaic (PV) energy generation should be increasingly used in cities. However, photovoltaics, the necessary substructure and greening structure must be carefully coordinated. The aim of...
by Biotope City | Feb 17, 2022 | Architecture & Urban development, Categorieën, News
The Biotope City neighborhood in Vienna is attracting a lot of attention, visits and tours are the order of the day. But most of the sustainable and climate-efficient features are not easily or not at all visible. They are ‘hidden treasures’. In order to...
by Christoph Küffer | May 29, 2021 | Architecture & Urban development
The pandemic has dominated thinking for almost two years, and slowly public attention is turning back to the much broader issue of climate change – but still another, equally crucial issue remains underexposed: the loss of biodiversity. Now that the pandemic is...
