INVITATION TO A GUIDED TOUR
Institute of Physics, Humboldt University of Berlin On 5 May 2026, from 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm, we are inviting you to a guided tour of the Institute of Physics at Humboldt University of Berlin in cooperation with the Berlin Rainwater Agency (Berliner Regenwasseragentur). The occasion is the spectacular flowering of the wisteria, which covers the façade of the building and is particularly worth seeing at this time of year. The tour will be led by Izabela Malachowska-Coqui. Please register by email at info@regenwasseragentur.berlin
START OF CONSTRUCTION IN GEFREES
A new senior center In Gefrees, in the Fichtelgebirge mountains of northern Bavaria, construction of the outdoor facilities for the “Haus am Bühl” care home – which will accommodate around 100 care places – is set to begin this spring.
CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE ADAPTATION
With a focus on heat and drought At the symposium on climate adaptation by the AWO (Workers’ Welfare Association), Izabela Malachowska-Coqui presented our two climate adaptation concepts for the AWO in Wittstock/Dosse and Prenzlau in a keynote speech on climate-sensitive planning for vulnerable groups. In the second part of the symposium, which dealt with participation processes, she also conducted a workshop. In this workshop, participants worked together on the question of how problems relating to heat and heat protection in facilities can be identified and named.
SEVEN YEARS LATER
Campus Rahn School Leipzig We visited our 2018 completed project for the outdoor facilities at the Rahn School campus in Leipzig. According to our plans, the outdoor space is divided into three recreation areas: the entrance courtyard, a running track area and the schoolyard. In addition, the school grounds have been given a planted front garden area with hedges and a strip of trees as a border.
SYMPOSIUM BEAUTIFUL TRANSFORMATION
Aesthetics and design of climate-friendly building culture Last year, Joerg Th. Coqui gave a lecture on new aesthetics in landscape architecture at the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig. In Forum 1, entitled ‘Beautiful Green and Blue – On the Aesthetics of Climate-Resilient Urban Landscapes,’ he spoke about the interplay between aesthetics and climate protection, using the example of our project of the Humboldt University of Berlin’s Institute of Physics, which got awarded at the 2025 German Landscape Architecture Prize.
STRATEGY WORKSHOP FOR AWO BRANDENBURG
Climate adaptation – raising awareness, mobilising action, implementation At this workshop we developed strategies together with the managers of the various AWO facilities with the aim of better adapting the various outdoor facilities to heat, drought and heavy rainfall. Three groups worked on proposals for the key topics of awareness raising, process structure and financing. The workshop identified important next steps for making outdoor facilities climate-resilient.
TOPPING-OUT CEREMONY AT THE SALVATOR SCHOOL
Reason to celebrate! At the end of last year, we celebrated the topping-out ceremony at the Salvator Catholic School in Berlin-Reinickendorf, where a new sports hall and canteen are being built for the school. In this project, which is being carried out in cooperation with Krieger + Mielke Architects, we are not only planning the outdoor facilities, but also providing ecological monitoring of construction work.
…WHEN PLANNING FOR A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY
Last week during the site visit.
WORKSHOP AT THE CLIMATE FESTIVAL
Institute of Physics: Exemplary rainwater management, façade greening and building cooling At the Climate Festival for the Building Transition at STATION Berlin, Joerg Th. Coqui led a workshop on the pilot project Institute for Physics at Humboldt University Berlin, which won the German Landscape Architecture Prize in the ‘Maturity Examination’ category in 2025. The topics of the workshop included rainwater management, façade greening and building cooling.
RAINWATER TOUR
…as part of InfraSPREE 2025 Joerg Th. Coqui and Iza Malachowska-Coqui gave a tour of the office complex at Landsberger Allee 52 — Berlin’s first cross-property rainwater solution as part of InfraSPREE 2025. We say, following Karl Valentin: ‘I am happy when it rains, because if I am not happy, it rains anyway.’