We have been designing innovative, CLIMATE-POSITIVE, CIRCULAR and RESILIENT cities for over 20 years.
Our focus is on building in existing contexts and implementing the PRINCIPLES OF THE SPONGE CITY.
Vibrant spaces that strengthen the COMMUNITY and shape the VEGETATION OF THE FUTURE are the goal of our integrated planning.
The fully booked event last week saw Joerg Th. Coqui guide 40 people through the courtyards and along the green façades of the Institute of Physics at Humboldt University in Berlin.
The great interest shown once again demonstrates the continuing relevance of this project, which was completed in 2003 and won the German Landscape Architecture Prize in the category ‘maturity examination’ in 2025.
Photo: © Emilian Kalkandzhiev (CMC)
As part of the InfraSPREE trade congress for water management and technical infrastructure, on 16 October 2025 we will be doing a guided tour of our pilot project on cross-property rainwater management atthe outdoor facilities of the property at Landsberger Allee 52 in Berlin.
Report on the topic of sponge city with our project: the Institute of Physics at Humboldt University Berlin – German Landscape Architecture Prize 2025 (award in the category ‘Maturity Test – Projects 20 Years and Older’).
Everyone is talking about sponge cities… including Christian Sievers on ZDF.
Our project is briefly but clearly visible from minute 20:03 onwards:
https://www.zdf.de/video/magazine/heute-journal-104/heute-journal-vom-17-september-2025–100
At the German Landscape Architecture Award 2025 ceremony, we were delighted to receive the award in the category ‘Maturity Test — Projects 20 Years and Older’ for our project Institute of Physics at Humboldt University Berlin, which was planned and realised in collaboration with Stefan Tischer and the architects Augustin and Frank.
The award recognises the foresight of the project: planned over 20 years ago, the climate-adapted and regenerative measures are now more relevant than ever and form the basis for legal regulations relating to rainwater management that now apply to all projects.
As part of the nationwide Climate Adaptation Week and the BuGG Action Week on Green Buildings (BuGG-Aktionswoche Gebäudegrün), we invite you to join us for a guided tour of the outdoor facilities at the Institute of Physics at HU Berlin.
When: 17.09.2025 um 16.00 Uhr
Meeting point: Institut für Physik der Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Newtonstraße 15, 12489 Berlin-Adlershof
Guided tour by: Joerg Th. Coqui, landscape architect
Organisation: Regenwasseragentur Berlin
The tour is already booked out. We are delighted by the high level of interest and will endeavour to arrange a repeat date as soon as possible.
Together with the AWO team and the senior citizens, we have developed 80 small and large measures for climate adaptation.
At the closing event, some of the measures were marked in the garden.We had a lot of fun doing it!
Photo: © AWO-Seniorenzentren Brandenburg
