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Monuments

Looren school building, Zürich
The key to designing sustainable and identity-forming open spaces is dealing respectfully with history and the traces of it that have been preserved. The elements that have been handed down are intentionally supplemented with a new layer.
Examining the history of a location makes us as landscape architects people “who understand time” and holds diverse potentials for the present and future. Besides a scholarly reappraisal of the history of a location’s evolution, taking stock of and analyzing what already exists involves in particular assessing it from the perspective of historic garden restoration. With our designs, we do not want to merely preserve or reconstruct the existing inventory, but also to develop something new from the old that corresponds to people’s current requirements. Transforming the historical dimension of a location creates sustainable open spaces with an identity-forming effect.

Botanical Garden Dahlem, Berlin

With its over forty-three hectares and around 22,000 different species of plants, the Botanical Garden in Berlin is the biggest botanical garden in Germany. It belongs to the Freie Universität Berlin and has the status of a central institution independent of the faculties.

Flower garden Treptower Park, Berlin

The primary goal was to preserve the existing design vocabulary while simultaneously strengthening the landscape park character by restoring visual contact with the Spree. Doing away with oversized path areas was also an aim. The existing structure of the beds was retained. The composition of the planting has been interpreted in a contemporary manner, with the color themes taken over and carried forward.

Conservation Management Plan for Elfenau, Bern

The special features of this valuable historic garden gently become more strongly emphasized once again as a result of appropriate conservation and cultivation. This includes the opening up of visual links and the more intensive planting of the broad meadows. Individual areas such as the courtyard will be rehabilitated in such a way that the ideas of the original owner become perceptible once again.

Baroque Garden Altes Gebäu and Fontanapark, Chur

The garden, which has been resigned several times, now has its original proportions once again. The old trees have been retained. The beds have been re-interpreted, and in place of the orangery, an arcade of yews separates the parterre from the gardens on Grabenstrasse.

Flower and Fig Garden in the Grosser Garten, Hannover

Der im Zweiten Weltkrieg verwüstete Blumengarten diente ab den 1960er Jahren als Sommergastronomie. Für die Weltausstellung EXPO 2000 wurde der Blumengarten zu seiner ursprünglichen Bestimmung mit der ehemaligen Gliederung in drei Bereiche zurückgeführt, aber zeitgenössisch interpretiert.

Baroque Garden Palais Rechberg, Zürich

The garden from 1760 is considered to be one of the most magnificent Baroque gardens in Zurich. Significant elements bear witness to the original garden. Amidst the inventory worthy of protection, novel plantings of annuals radiate a lively garden culture.

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