Images from recent events
Stadtluft Evening Event in Winterthur, September 2024
Munich-based author Jonas Lüscher, who achieved fame with his first book “Spring of the Barbarians”, introduced the evening event.
Star architect Max Dudler, Zurich Councillor of States Tiana Moser, Zurich Government Councillor and Director of Construction Martin Neukom and Austrian timber construction pioneer Hermann Kaufmann. The event was moderated by Laura Weismüller from the Süddeutsche Zeitung (from left to right).
Side-kick with Alexander Stumm, founder of the Berlin-based “Demolition Moratorium”.
View of the fantastic “Blue Hall” at the ZHAW.
The evening was opened by Christa Meier, the Winterthur city councillor responsible for construction.
Presenter Laura Weissmüller from the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Stadtluft “The Recycled City” Workshops in Winterthur, September 2024
View into the “Forum“ of Winterthur's city administration. Anita Eckhardt, a member of Implenia's Executive Board, presents the world's tallest timber high-rise building to the expert tribune.
Stadtluft Swarm intelligence in the expert tribune. Wolfram Kübler, Partner at WaltGalmarini, speaks. Matthias Eisele, Partner at merz kley partner (top right), Markus Schäfer, Partner at Hosoya Schaefer Architects (white shirt with blue polka dots), and Bernhard Egert, Head of Timber Construction and Green Building at UBM Development, listen.
Conversation in Danish. Jens Andersen, city architect of Winterthur, talks to the Copenhagen architects of the timber high-rise: Mads Kaltoft, Principal & Partner, and Vagn Borlund Project Manager, at Schmidt Hammer Lassen.
Danish architecture for Winterthur: Mads Kaltoft presents the high-rise plans.
Bernhard Egert takes the floor.
Team Vienna intervenes: Benjamin Kromoser, Head of the Institute for Building Construction, Timber Construction and Construction at the Vienna University of Bodenkultur.
Politics and administration get involved: Reto Diener, member of the Winterthur City Parliament's Environment and Public Works Committee, intervenes. Next to him, Philippe Weber, Chairman of the Commission. Also in the picture: Katrin Gügler, Director of the Office for Urban Development of the City of Zurich.
The financial view of sustainability: Sennen Kauz, Head Real Estate Transaction / Development & Production at Swiss Life Asset Management.
Andrea Sorg, Partner at Stadtluft, leads through the day.
Martin Joos, city engineer of Winterthur, presents the sustainability plan for his city.
Team Vienna: In addition to Benjamin Kromoser, Bernhard Jarolim, Director of Urban Development, and Bernadette Luger, Head of the Resource Conservation and Sustainability in Construction Unit at the Department of Urban Development, represented the Austrian metropolis.
Matthias Eisele intervenes in the expert tribune. Opposite him, Beda Weber, Head of Timber Construction a.i. Implenia, listens intently.
Stadtluft Conclusion “The Recycled City” Workshops in Winterthur, September 2024
What have we learnt? In addition to the representatives of the cities of Winterthur, Vienna and Berlin, the representative of the Canton of Zurich, Jasmin Mertens, Head of Circular Economy of the building department.
Andreas Sonderegger, Co-Head of the Institute of Constructive Design, ZHAW, was the host in the Blue Room.
A final round with momentum.
Stadtluft Evening Event in Winterthur, September 2023
The Swiss-French bestselling author Alex Capus will give his keynote speech on the topic of "Trees in the City".
Schwammstadt expert Gerhard Hauber from Henning Larsen speaks alongside Christine Binswanger, Senior Partner at Herzog & de Meuron.
Zurich cantonal councillor and construction director Martin Neukom in his element.
Zora del Buono, Swiss-Italian author of the bestseller "Das Leben der Mächtigen. Reisen zu alten Bäumen" in a one-on-one interview with the moderator with moderator Isabel Pfaff, correspondent of the Süddeutsche Zeitung in Switzerland.
The audience is entertained. In the centre is Thomas Stoiber, Co-Head of Climate & Mobility of the Canton of Zurich's Department of Construction. To his left is Gregory Grämiger, Project Manager for Spatial Planning in the Office for Spatial Development of the same authority. On the right is project leader Nicolas Perrez from the Winterthur Office of Urban Development.
Full house in the large hall of the city administration of Winterthur.
Stadtluft Urban Trees Workshops in Winterthur, September 2023
Stefan Hug, Head of Mobility ad interim of the Civil Engineering Office of the City of Winterthur introduces a sponge city project.
The Vienna team: Josef Scheichl, Competence Centre Green and Environmental Infrastructure and Environment of the Baudirekion Wien, Clemens Horak, Head of Urban Development and Urban Planning of the City of Vienna, and Isabel Wieshofer, Head of the Department for Landscape and Open Space Planning of the Vienna Urban Development (from left to right). In the background, Nicolas Perrez, Project Manager Spatial Development in the Department of Urban Development of the City of Winterthur, takes notes.
Team Berlin: Anja Henke, Head of Tree Management in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district, and Heike Stock, scientific officer and co-author of the Urban Development Plan Climate of the Department of Open Space Planning and Urban Greening of the Berlin Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment (from left to right).
View into the hall where the third and last workshop is running.
The expert panel intervenes every minute and gives valuable feedback on the projects presented. Here is a contribution by Zurich landscape architect Lorenz Eugster.
Jens Andersen, the Danish-Swiss city architect of Winterthur, takes a stand.
A Basel intermezzo during a break: architect Sara Ellenberger Vaner, landscape architect and gardener Amanda Frantzen and landscape architect and urbanist from the Basel initiative „Mein Baum, Dein Baum". Rightmost in the picture Christine Binswanger, Senior Partner at Herzog & de Meuron.
Andrea Sorg, Head of Stadtluft, and Winterthur's Master Builder Jens Andersen listen intently.
Stadtluft programme in one picture.
Viennese sharpness of analysis.
Team Berlin in work mode. In the background in front of the memo wall is Martin Jakl, Co-Head of Urban Space and Architecture at the Winterthur Urban Planning Office.
In a quiet corner, exchanging ideas over an aperitif. Christine Binswanger from Herzog & de Meuron and Christine Bräm, Director of Grün Stadt Zürich.
Stadtluft Conclusion Urban Trees Workshops in Winterthur, September 2023
Conclusion of the day with representatives from Berlin, Vienna and Winterthur.
After twelve hours on the topic of „Urban trees", Clemens Horak from the City of Vienna summarised the learnings.
Winterthur's city architect Jens Anderson sums up the the day.
Heike Stock from the Berlin Senate sees urban planning in the German capital challenged by climate change.
Christa Meier, Head of the Department of Construction and Mobility of the City of Winterthur, opened both the day's and the evening's programme.
Christine Bräm, Director Grün Stadt Zürich, takes the floor at the evening programme.
Stadtluft Evening Event in Winterthur, May 2022
Simon Kuper from the Financial Times introduces the topic "Bicycles in the City".
Swiss-French writer Alex Capus makes Dutch urban planner Anouk Kuitenbrouwer laugh.
Moderator Simon Strauss of the F.A.Z. interviews Jacqueline Fehr, member of the Zurich government.
FT columnist Simon Kuper interviews Danish urban planner Jan Gehl about a video link in front of a live audience.
A legend and the star columnist united on one screen.
Urban planner Anouk Kuitenbrouwer, author Alex Capus, Cantonal Councillor Jacquelin Fehr and moderator Simon Strauss (from left to right).
Stadtluft Velo Workshops in Winterthur, May 2022
Wolfgang Feigl, Head of the Traffic Planning Department of the City of Graz, sits next to Herbert Elsener, Head of the Traffic Department of the Civil Engineering Office of the City of Winterthur.
Helmut Spinka, Cycling Officer of the City of Graz, Markus Kronheim, Coordination Cycling Offensive 2030 City of Graz and Province of Styria, Felix Weisbrich, Head of Streets and Green Spaces Office of the Berlin District Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Merja Spott, Coordination Office Cycling and Walking, Senate Department for Environment, Mobility, Consumer and Climate Protection and Stefan Hug, Project Manager at the Civil Engineering Office of the City of Winterhtur (from left to right).
Wolfgang Feigl, Head of the Traffic Planning Department of the City of Graz, sits next to Herbert Elsener, Head of the Traffic Department of the Civil Engineering Office of the City of Winterthur.
The experts from the cities of Berlin, Graz and Winterthur sit opposite the expert tribune.
Felix Weisbrich in action.
View into the workshop room. Andrea Sorg from Stadtuft is standing in front of the screen.
Christine Ziegler, Head of the Climate Office of the City of Winterthur, was also a member of the expert tribune. In the background can be seen Steve Coucheman, Head of the Canton of Zurich's Cycling Unit.
Many concrete solutions were developed during the workshops.
Markus Kronheim helps to attach plans.
Stadtluft Conclusion Velo Workshops in Winterthur, May 2022
Herbert Elsener, Head of Traffic of the Civil Engineering Office of the City of Winterthur, listens to the Deputy Mayor of Graz, Judith Schwentner.
Deputy Mayor of Graz Judith Schwentner listens to Andrea Sorg, founder and director of Stadtluft.
Urban planner Anouk Kuitenbrouwer, government councillor Jacqueline Fehr and FT columnist Simon Kuper sit in the audience.
Herbert Elsener, Head of the Traffic Department at the Civil Engineering Office of the City of Winterthur, listens to Felix Weisbrich, Head of the Roads and Green Spaces Department of the Berlin district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg.
Felix Weisbrich, Herbert Elsener and Judith Schwentner (from left to right).
Felix Weisbrich, Herbert Elsener, Judith Schwentner and Andrea Sorg (from left to right).
