From urban strategy to hybrid timber construction

Around the Cologne trade fair across all scales Part of our self-image as a planning office is to work across scales, to relate respective requirements from the different work levels to each other and to provide our clients with comprehensive advice against this background. This can be well illustrated by the example of our involvement […]

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) […]