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The Federal Building Ministry recently presented a strategy for heat protection in urban development and construction.
News · 31. July 2024
We have to rethink: leave our own comfort zone and question the images and processes we are used to. In times of climate change with all its manifestations, a new way of thinking and aesthetics are needed in architecture and landscape architecture for public open spaces and buildings. Design must also be questioned; the processes and the path to the built work are changing.
News · 16. July 2024
During a visit to the Kitzingen office of arc.grün | landschaftsarchitekten.stadtplaner on 10 July 2024 by Dr. Anja Weisgerber, environmental policy spokesperson for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Managing Director Gudrun Rentsch, Vice President of the bdla, provided information on the tasks and importance of landscape architecture and landscape planning in overcoming the challenges of climate change and the biodiversity crisis. Based on current projects and in view of the recent flooding events in the politician's home region, the principles of the sponge city and sponge landscape were explained.
News · 12. July 2024
Leading experts from research and practice will provide insights into current topics in the field of climate protection and climate adaptation.
News · 09. July 2024
On June 26, 2024, the prizes for the German Builder-Owner Award 2024 competition were awarded in Berlin. "Today's winners show that building can be affordable and of high quality. This should not only be the guiding principle for projects in times of difficult framework conditions," said Sören Bartol, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building, in front of around 200 guests at the EUREF-Campus.
News · 01. July 2024
Callwey Verlag has organized the GÄRTEN DES JAHRES competition for the tenth time. Together with its partners, including the bdla, the media company is looking for the best private gardens designed by landscape architects, gardeners and landscapers in German-speaking countries. For the first time, the Newcomer of the Year award will be presented to young offices (not founded before 2021).
News · 01. July 2024
The Austrian Society for Landscape Architecture ÖGLA led a two-day tour through cool and chilly Vienna. On the agenda for the 35 participants from the Association of German Landscape Architects (bdla) and the Association of Swiss Landscape Architects (BSLA) was landscape architecture with a climate impact. Their effectiveness could be tested immediately in very different Viennese "neighborhoods" and districts at around 30°.
News · 01. July 2024
On June 26, 2024, a public self-referral on sports facilities and urban development was held by the Committee on Housing, Urban Development, Construction and Local Authorities in the German Bundestag with bdla participation. Appointed by the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Ralf Maier, owner of maier landschaftsarchitektur Köln, spoke as an expert on behalf of the profession. In addition, representatives of the International Association of Sports and Leisure Facilities, the German Association of Cities and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) were heard by the parliamentarians.
News · 27. June 2024
With the participation of several young offices, students and numerous interested landscape architects, "FRISCHGRÜN - Exhibition of Young Landscape Architecture" opened on June 20, 2024. The competition launched by the AG Junge Landschaftsarchitekt:innen with the following exhibition at the State Garden Show in Kirchheim presents eleven young landscape architecture firms, their projects, their motivation and the makers behind them.
News · 25. June 2024
Appeal from the planning and auditing professions to the federal government
Affordable housing is a fundamental human right and the basis for peaceful and fair coexistence. "But more and more people can no longer find affordable housing. Growing inequality and the feeling of injustice provide a breeding ground for extremism and anti-democratic tendencies," said representatives of the planning and auditing professions - architects, engineers, interior designers, landscape architects, urban planners and surveyors - in their appeal to the German government, which was adopted on June 18, 2024.
News · 19. June 2024
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