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Evaluation after 5 Years: Biotope City Wienerberg – Concept, Objectives, Results

Five years after its completion, Biotope City Wienerberg is being evaluated. A detailed resident survey and a review by the key experts involved—the IBA Vienna 2022 pilot project has passed the test, a result that is quite impressive.

Who WillPay for It?

Webinar by DI Doris Schnepf and Mag. Roland Honeder Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 17.00 hrs The topic is the eco-social urban renewal bond – an innovative financial and organizational instrument for promoting urban biodiversity and climate-resilient city districts, using...

5 YEARS of BOSCO VERTICALE IN SOCIAL HOUSING

Now available on the BIOTOPE CITY JOURNAL YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYpICcfOA98 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=biotope+city+journal The Trudo Tower in Eindhoven has been in operation for 5 years: an occasion for an evaluation...

Vegetation’s Impact on Climate

webinar by Dipl.-Met. Guido W. Halbig https://www.youtube.com/@biotopecityjournal For the 50th lecture in our series, we are pleased to announce a webinar featuring a fundamentally important presentation: Dipl.-Met. Guido Halbig will highlight climate influences that...

Experiences with Nature-Inclusive Building

ir. Maike van Stiphout, landscape architect, Amsterdam https://www.youtube.com/@biotopecityjournal The temperature-reducing effects of greening in urban spaces are, fortunately, now widely known. But what does "greening" actually mean? Chlorophyll isn't a...

Greywater Use – Potentials in and Around Buildings

Webinar with Oliver Pongracz and Susanne Formanek Now available on our YouTube channel: Greywater Use – Potentials in/on and around Buildings In densely built cities, water is becoming an increasingly precious resource. At the same time, a large amount of...

Urban Expansion in Munich: The Role of Cooperatives for Social Cohesion under the Guidelines ‘Sustainability and Ecology’

Dipl.Ing. Wolfgang Heidenreich Wolfgang Heidenreich examines the influence of activities by young housing cooperatives on new Munich urban districts, through which the implementation of the goals 'ecology/biodiversity' and 'climate protection' in the areas of...

The example of Biotope City Wienerberg: The green city at the crossroad of disciplines, investors and authorities

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 idea of the...

Space for Nature in the City

Webinar by Conrad Amber Now at the Youtube Channel of BIOTOPE CITY JOURNAL click on 'video' - MPORTANT: At the end of the English announcement, you'll find instructions to activate YouTube's AUTO TRANSLATION for the video There is room for nature everywhere. Whether...

Edible Balcony Gardens With Rainwater Integration in Retrofit

Dr. DI Irene Zluwa and DI Dr. Philipp Spörl GRÜNSTATTGRAU Innovations- und Forschungs-GmbH and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Institute of Engineering Biology and Landscaping Irene Zluwa (GRÜNSTATTGRAU) and Philipp Spörl (BOKU University)...

A walk through the garden paradise Nuthe Siedlung in Potsdam

Photos: Helga Fassbinder The social housing estate was designed and built between 1999 and 2002 by Hinrich Baller, architect in Berlin and emeritus professor at the Academy of Arts Hamburg (HfbK). The Nuthe Estate in Potsdam has to be considered as Hinrich Baller's...

Obituary for Hinrich Baller

The news of the death of Hinrich Baller, one of the great architects of the past century, reached us with a delay. He was one of the few in the architectural world who devoted himself to the topic of integrating greenery into buildings from the very beginning of...