The new city entrance for south-east Potsdam proposed by Christoph Mäckler, Johannes Cox (HKK Landschaftsarchitektur) and Konrad Roth (ARGUS Stadt und Verkehr) will be redefined and complement the historic buildings. The motorway-like entrance is thus transformed into a prestigious location for visitors and residents.

Axthelm Rolvien's concept for the Altstädter Ring, the ring road bypassing the historic city centre, focuses on the transformation of mobility and creates an urban environment with new places to relax and linger in the centre of Spandau.

The almost four-kilometre-long elevated road that runs from the former Wilmersdorf junction to Steglitz is to be dismantled. Patzschke Architekten are proposing an urban redevelopment that reconnects fragmented places such as Breitenbachplatz, creates 3,500 flats and transforms previously sealed areas into liveable natural spaces.

Today it is a lake of tarmac, dominated by cars. The team from Bernd Albers Architekten, ENS Architekten and students from the University of Applied Sciences want to change this by reducing the number of lanes and planning a spacious roundabout, thus creating a city square with a new quality of life.

In the future - according to the architects at gmp von Gerkan, Marg und Partner - the inhospitable traffic lane is to be transformed into a city street: with a new sequence of landscaped, transverse squares, a new organisation of the traffic lanes and new residential buildings that close the gaping spatial edges. 

Architects Heike Handa and Jan Kleihus present a delicate colonnade, two storeys high and 1,100 metres long, complemented by trees and trellises. It provides space for market areas or workshops. ‘The result,’ say the architects, ’is a piece of new identity in a city that optimistically faces up to the questions of the future.’ 

The architects from GRAFT present a design that redefines the inhospitable Mollstraße/Prenzlauer Alle traffic junction right up to the United Nations Square: A water surface runs through the urban space, and green loggia façades and private roof gardens are proposed for existing prefabricated buildings.

The LANGHOF® team and the traffic planners from Hofmann-Leichter are transforming the area around Holzmarktstraße and Stralauer Platz into a habitable urban garden, including car and cycle paths in organic form and residential buildings in timber hybrid construction, which stand between trees and shrubs.

The design by TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten and the landscape architects from ‘ST raum a’ sees itself as an ‘ecologically conscious and socially friendly addition to the urban spaces’. Nothing will be demolished here; gaps in the city will be filled with housing, among other things.

The design by HILMER SATTLER ARCHITEKTEN revises the four-lane traffic axis in the centre of Köpenick and reduces it in favour of a pedestrian and cycle path connection. In the centre of the old town, a new riverside park and a new castle square with complementary buildings are being created that are worthy of the name.