Climate change as a central global challenge calls for responsible strategies so as to substantially improve the energy footprint of our actions.

Global climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. Landscape architecture is predestined to make a significant contribution to meeting climate targets. As an enterprise, it is our responsibility to optimize the energy footprint of our actions. In addition, open spaces also directly improve the urban climate by supporting, for example, the circulation of air and the creation of cold air. We promote the development of sustainable urban and landscape spaces with a holistic approach, in which trees, landscape architecture’s most important design element, are given a very new significance.

Projects: Climate

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Monuments

Ecology

Sociology & Society

Water

Economics

Climate

Agglo Werdenberg-Liechtenstein: Public space and heat-adapted settlement development

Cold air corridors and easily accessible, high-quality green spaces contribute significantly to a pleasant settlement climate. For the Werdenberg-Liechtenstein agglomeration, we are developing principles, fields of action and measures for heat-adapted settlement development.

Climate

2nd place: success in Freilassing

A "sponge oasis" for the main street in Freilassing summarizes the goals for the redesign in terms of content: bioclimatically adapted, with new experiences for all generations, and flexibly designed with regard to future transformations.

Model construction project Obere Pfalzgrafstraße Freising, Freising

Restricted competition "New residential complex on Obere Pfalzgrafstraße, Erna Angerbach lives in the countryside".

Water

Climate

3rd place in the competition Masterplan Mainau 2040, Mainau

Competition success: We are very pleased to have won 3rd place in the two-stage competition "Masterplan Mainau 2040 mit Palmenhaus" together with Henning Larsen Architects. Special congratulations to our editors Regine Keller, Franz Damm, Annika Sailer, Silvia Benedito, Dantong Su, Marcia Rosenheinrich and Laura Stoib.

The Prime Tower at the Hardbrücke traffic junction in Zurich West is still the most visible witness to the transformation of the Maag site from an industrial location to a mixed-use neighborhood.

Climate

Thurgauerstrasse District Park, Zürich

A loose structure of trees that again and again offers views of the surrounding urban spaces frames the central clearing in the new district park. A striking, spacious entrance area anchors the park on Thurgauerstrasse.

Climate

Sociology & Society

Rhine River Promenade, Basel

Curved terraces overcome the striking difference in height between the Rhine River and the Novartis campus. The design vocabulary developed based on the flow of the river creates a special sort of riverbank promenade.

Climate

Water

Swisscom Building Binz, Zürich

The former clay quarry served as a landfill and was subsequently placed under nature protection. The surface water is not permitted to seep in. With large basins of water, we have created diverse habitats that—corresponding to the artificiality of the location—are also designed in an artificial way.

Climate

Water

Ecology

2nd place in the competition for the new adddition of the Großhadern Clinic in Munich, 2021

Agglo Obersee—Open Spaces and Settlement Areas Adapted to Heat

Open spaces play a crucial roll in adapting settlement areas to the climate. For the Obersee agglomeration area, which consists of seventeen municipalities in three cantons, we are developing the basis and recommendations for action for promoting a temperate climate in settlement areas.

Ecology

Climate