What comes after growth?

Integrated Redevelopment and Land-Use Strategies It is becoming increasingly clear that the future of our cities and their neighborhoods will no longer be created primarily through new construction, but through the intelligent use of what is already there. Integrated refurbishment and usage strategies that take existing buildings seriously and recognize and utilize their potential receive […]

Getting to the infrastructure

From kindergarten in the green estate to top-class medicine on 16 floors Infrastructure is currently the focus of government investment, from education and healthcare to mobility. The driver is the new special fund “Infrastructure and Climate Neutrality”, from which over 37 billion euros are available. The transport sector will receive the largest share, supplemented by […]

25 years of learning from Hafencity

Our master plan has allowed Hamburg’s city center to grow for a quarter of a century The revitalization of former industrial and port areas continues to be one of the most important challenges of urban planning in major European cities. In Hamburg, the interdisciplinary master plan developed by ASTOC (Cologne), KCAP Architects & Planners (Rotterdam) […]