Category: New Waterscapes

The climate in the Nuremberg Prisma

  The whole roof area of the complex feeds directly into a water cistern.   The glass building creates a pleasant atmosphere within the city centre. Waterwalls and luxuriant vegetation create a healthy atmosphere full of natural light.   When architect Frank Lloyd Wright built the famous ‘Fallingwater’ house in the hilly countryside of Pennsylvania […]

Water is universal

to gravity. And this actually does occur at first. But after a very short time the thread of water changes its course: it starts to swing rhythmically to the right and left, producing a meander­ing trail of water that changes constantly. Rivulets, streams and rivers form these meanders, leave loops behind and reshape their banks. […]

The new town square in Gummersbac

  Gummersbach is the chief town of its district, Oberberg, which it runs with creditable efficiency: the economy flour­ishes. The prosperity of this town of 50,000 inhabitants 50 kilometres east of Cologne has been on a solid basis from time immemorial. A small-scale, balanced mixture of industry, trade, agriculture and services has always pro­duced – […]