Kölner Ringstraßen - Backbone of the City in the 21st Century
Three Concepts for a forward-looking Development

Exhibition: February 3 - March 15, 2012
Opening: 3 February 2012, 6:30 pm

Aedes Am Pfefferberg, Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin
Opening hours: Di-Fr 11 bis 18.30 Uhr, Sa-So 13 bis 17 Uhr

“To heighten awareness of the value of a high-quality built environment, of the value of improving the quality of public spaces […]”: according to the architect Jürgen Minkus, Chairman of the advisory council for urban planning and layout of the City Council of Cologne, this must be the paramount objective for developing our cities - Cologne included. The path forward is indicated by an interdisciplinary planning workshop on Cologne’s Ringstraßen (ring roads): What makes it possible for us to genuinely experience the Ringstraßen within the urban structure? Discussed on the basis of this question is the character of the Ringstraßen and the qualities that are called for if they are to be strengthened as components of local identity.

The exhibition deals with the dialogic preparatory processes as well as the results of the planning workshop, with three conceptual proposals by Ackers Partner Städtebau, Braunschweig with Kuttner+Kahl, SBI; the Team Office Regina Poly, Berlin with Ulla Luther, Kleihues+Kleihues, Runge+Küchler; and Pesch Partner - pp a | s, Stuttgart with Agence Ter, Brilon Bondzio Weiser.

Welcome

• Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss Director of Aedes
• Bernd Streitberger Head of Department Planning and Building, Cologne
• Prof. Albert Speer Albert Speer & Partner GmbH, Frankfurt am Main