Düsseldorf. Metropolis on the Rhine

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STRATEGIEN, PROGRAMME UND PROJEKTE_X Innovation through intervention: Blaugrüner Ring open space planning JUDITH ARTMANN DIRK BAACKMANN THORBEN MEIER RUTH ORZESSEK-KRUPPA CORNELIA ZUSCHKE
International competition “Blaugrüner Ring” (Blue-green Ring) 25 <strong>Düsseldorf</strong> is a polycentric city in which highly dense areas are interwoven with loose village-like developments and generous open spaces as an entity. The Rhine forms a central distinctive feature that — largely in its wide riverbed — meanders through the city. Apart from this natural river structure, the outdoor spaces of the city are also characterized by horticulture. Especially Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe (1775–1846) left his mark and created a belt of historical cultural parks and green areas, which previously wrapped like a closed semicircle around <strong>Düsseldorf</strong>’s inner-city area to the east. Distinctive elements of this green ring have been preserved up until today and lend the old city and city center their special atmosphere. At the same time, the city’s important art and culture institutions are spread across this green carpet: the Schauspielhaus, opera house, Kunstakademie, or the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (art collection of North Rhine-Westphalia), to name but a few. However, up until now people have perceived them more as solitaires and less as a coherent cultural landscape with intensive relationships among each other and with the green areas that surround them. This may seem surprising, because the cultural icons, in some cases housed in historical, listed buildings, are linked with the green areas to form a unique strolling promenade around four kilometers long. The particular potential of the open space, combined with the networking and development potential surrounding <strong>Düsseldorf</strong>’s culture scene, forms the core of the competition “Blaugrüner Ring” that was held from July 2018 to December 2019. The competition required the establishment of a relationship between the city and the river, whilst embracing the great art and culture institutions built alongside each other within a small area in the old city and the center of <strong>Düsseldorf</strong>. Dormant potential was to be awakened, filled with life, and brought into the future. The Blue-green Ring is delineated by the landscape areas of the inner-city fabric: the Rhine, the “blue,” was to be brought together with the “green,” i.e. the ring fragments of the Hofgarten park, Königsallee, and Haroldstraße. Short connecting paths were to be created, The Kaiserteich pond at the southern end of the Blaugrüner Ring
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