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The Architects‘ and Engineers’ Association of Berlin-Brandenburg is using its 200th birthday as an opportunity to present the pressing issue of Berlin and its streets: The open-air exhibition from 5 September to 30 November 2024 on Unter den Linden in Berlin-Mitte will promote the necessary public discussion about the kind of city we and future generations want for the future.

The ‘Great Streets of Today’ section of the exhibition uses selected main streets, each representing an era of the last 200 years, to show how these urban spaces that characterise Berlin's reputation and in which we live today came about. The influence of political, cultural and social upheavals on the appearance of the streets becomes just as clear as the respective claim to modernity.

In the second part, ‘Great streets for tomorrow’, renowned architects and engineers show how ten currently inhospitable street spaces in Berlin and Potsdam could be remodelled to make them liveable. Other forms of mobility, new climatic conditions and sustainable forms of energy generation will change the streets.

With this initiative, the AIV is calling for a debate on how we can move away from the idea and practice of the car-friendly city - in a dialogue between politics, administration, civil society, science and business.

Strassen von heute
Great Streets of Today

These main streets reflect the history of Berlin with its economic booms, wars, crises, dictatorships, destruction, division and reunification. They testify to the widely differing visions that have shaped its design, a design however, immer modern (always modern), in any case.

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Strassen für morgen
Great Streets of Tomorrow

Ten renowned architectural firms are examining the potential for change in ten main streets in Berlin as well as in the neighbouring state capital of Potsdam and submitting proposals for a sustainable and people-friendly redesign.

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Videos & Events

Austellungseröffnung
Opening ceremony
Following the symposium on ‘Great streets of today: How the conversion can succeed’, the exhibition was officially opened on the evening of the 5th of September with a ceremony in the garden of the Kronprinzenpalais.
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Symposium 1 Kronprinzenpalais
Symposium ‘Great Streets of Today: How the conversion can succeed’
The exhibition and the accompanying events ‘immer modern! Berlin and its Streets. 200 Years of Architecture, Urban Planning and Engineering for Berlin’ were kicked off on 5th September with a symposium on the topic of ‘Great Streets of Today: How the conversion can succeed’ at the Kronprinzenpalais Unter den Linden.
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Symposium Vortrag und Diskussion
Symposium ‘Great Streets of Tomorrow: Berlin after the mobility, climate and energy transition’
Following the first symposium on 5th September on the topic of ‘Great Streets of Today: How the transformation can succeed’, the AIV organised a second conference on the ‘Great Streets of Tomorrow’ shown in the exhibition and on questions of future mobility.
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Lebenswerte Straßenräume von Morgen
‘Great Streets of Tomorrow: Proposals for the transformation of the metropolis’
The ten participating planning teams of architects, landscape architects as well as transport and infrastructure planners will present their designs and answer questions from the audience.
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Catalog

Katalog

The exhibition catalog

The Architekten- und Ingenieurverein zu Berlin-Brandenburg has published a two-volume publication which, on the one hand, documents the development and motivation of the association as a commemorative publication and, on the other hand, accompanies the open-air exhibition ‘immer modern! Berlin and its streets’ as a catalog.

Sponsored by:

lotto
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sen_umweltklima

Partners:

Gasag
volksbank
vw_drive
Kim
huboldtfo
gruenberlin
staatsbiblio
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