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- SummaryThis material shows a press conference with the Senator for Urban Development Dr. Volker Hassemer and various representatives of the jury. The theme of the press conference is an urban development competition that focuses on the future of Potsdamer Platz. The senator and the members of the jury report on the misunderstandings that arose during the competition procedure and explain the aim of the competition (definition of urban order). In addition, the last part of the second cassette features recordings of the building of the Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection as well as pictures from the exhibition "Städtebaulicher Wettbewerb Potsdamer/Leipziger Platz".
- ShotlistC1/2108: Volker Hassemer, Süchting, Stimmann and representatives of the jury (Prof. Sieverts, Prof. Peischel) enter the room; Dr. Volker Hassemer OT (Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection): "Potsdamer Platz/ ...what would that be like for a city that lets such a place be planned without commitment, without passion/ controversy about Potsdamer Platz was foreseeable/ controversy is an excited contribution of ideas and suggestions/ surprised about some form of contention/ dismayed about one point/ dramatic misunderstanding/ difference between urban competitions and architectural competitions/ quality of the discussion is affected thereby/ discussion, who makes this misunderstanding a superficial discussion, does not allow to really get into the quality and the problems of the designs/ can disclose to them minutes of the competition/ can communicate authentic document, result to the jury/ representatives of the jury give explanations/ Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Sieverts, Prof. Peichl and Mr. Sawade/ will revise this draft/ complex and important topic/ must not overlook any idea/ in November Senate proposal/ in close cooperation with Mr. Nagel/ will include considerations, ideas and wishes of investors in this revision/ investors will finally move in there/ sovereign participation of the Investors in competition/ want to know what they have in mind, clarify wishes and criticism/ at the same time strictly observe urban competence/ urban planning at Potsdamer Platz/ determine and combine both, interest in what investors say with adherence to the competence of the state of Berlin, then I do justice to my task"; Sieverts OT (chairman of the jury): "....would like to point out how endangered such a competition procedure is/ Competition is the most important component of what we have built up in planning culture in recent decades/ Competition culture has improved construction/ Jury worries about events that took place after the jury's decision/ Non-compliance with confidentiality, personal disparagement, cannot jury unbiasedly work/ would like to clear up misunderstandings/ urban competition and architectural competition/ public regards the competition event as if it were a design for a big house/ as if it were big architecture/ perhaps comes through Roger's design/ wrong circumvention/ task of the competition was definition of urban order/ this then provides the basis for architectures of different kind/ invokes me as a competition/ was worked out carefully/ should be worked out carefully further the basis of the joint work is/ determines the aim of the competition/ determines an urban order/ afterwards individual competitions for the design of the architecture/ urban order differs from architectural order/ urban order means determining a large piece of city for periods of time the architectures outlive/ must last many hundreds of years/ comparison with large cities/ popular areas often have simple basic structure/ simple, strong and spatial definition/ the more precise the order is determined, the more freely architecture can develop/ this was the goal/ first prize establishes essential spatial basic orders in a precise and developable form/ this design corresponds to the goals of the competition as well as the interests of the city and investors/ does not mean that the design is built as in the model/ basic order should correspond to European city..."; Cross section press conference (PK); Gustav Peichl OH (architect, Vienna); city map; jury and Hassemer; Dr. Volker Hassemer P; Jürgen Sawade; press/journalists; Gustav Peichl gives statement; Gustav Peichl OT: "...everyone in the jury has discussed which of the projects is best suited for further work/ jury has to consider many criteria like architectural quality, traffic, economy etc.., but also feasibility, which is easily possible/ all discussions and criteria were important/ award-winning project has a very good result/ different departments have achieved this result with a good majority/ award-winning project is flexible, specification within the framework of a master plan, this will be revised/ architects will get quite difficulties, but is usual/ project is still being revised/ jury, which has won something, has to rely on politicians standing behind it..."; Conference room T with view on the speaker's table; various attitudes of journalists; Sawade gives statement; press; speaker's table on the side; draft; journalists; speaker's table on the side; Sawade criticizes Rogers' behavior; Sawade OT: "...should supposedly only consult / next day he shows model / has nothing to do with architectural culture any more / earlier one would have given house ban / he would have to get city ban / incomprehensible / has subversively procedures / has everything become a farce / my personal remark ..."; Jury asks itself questions of journalists; Hassemer OT: "The purpose of the competition were designs by different people with different ideas..."; Edited images press conference; recordings of the jury C1/2109: Press conference (PK) "Potsdamer Platz"; Gustav Peichl; Statement Volker Hassemer; Hassemer OT: "...it was never planned that two proceedings would run against each other/ nobody, including Rogers himself, considered this a possible procedure/ we all knew Roger's consideration not/ difficult to comment on design that was not discussed in the jury/ in my opinion Roger's design would not have gone far/ for us it was important to develop urban space that connects the two halves of the city/ the most important form of concrete connection of these urban spaces is the famous old Reichsstraße 1/ we had never thought about it, whether Leipziger Strasse could not stop/ was unquestionable that a street running into the square could be interrupted/ Signum of the connection/ Idea of Rogers is to create a functioning world/ is not located in itself as a livable connecting piece, but as a self-contained place between the two halves of the city/ demands connection at another place/ was not the tender/ was not an optimal consideration/ considerations of the roofings and malls, was not the idea of the tender of this area."; Newspaper on the table; Journalist asks question Interview with Volker Hassemer on the models: "Find the debate really good/ important place/ disputes challenge everyone to bring arguments/ need arguments/ also Roger's arguments/ wants to use the ideas, arguments and suggestions of a man who is a great architect and has dealt intensively with the place in the revision/ will include both ideas from investors and Roger's suggestions..."; Volker Hassemer OT on Sony's ideas (beyond 36 m): "If he looks at the plan, he will find possibilities/ in Hillmer's and Sattler's design there are higher buildings, which are barely lower than Europa Center..."; Volker Hassemer OT on the dispute: "The dispute is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what an urban expertise has to achieve/ only has to present blocks, not architecturally designed/ all those who saw it for the first time did not see that only the differentiated architecture to be developed in competing competitions must now be based on this model of order..."; Volker Hassemer OT on investors' possible demands for high-rise buildings: "Opinion that our desire at this point to connect the two cities would not be compatible with large high-rise figures/ would not have been lifted away and not connected/ do not believe that investors will demand this either"; Interview with Volker Hassemer OT; Entrance Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umweltschutz (Lindenstraße) (Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection); building swings upwards on house façade; Jürgen Sawade and colleagues leave the building; sign with the words "Senate Department for Urban Development and Environmental Protection"; sign "Arbeitsamt IV Berlin" and sign of the Senate Department; Esplanade, inside: Model exhibition Potsdamer Platz; various shots of models and drawings; various detailed photographs of models; various shots of the exhibition; people view models, discuss; Esplanade, exterior: Esplanade lettering on house wall, bird's-eye view; downward pan to entrance with sign "Exhibition of the Urban Planning Competition Potsdamer/Leipziger Platz"; Esplanade lettering
- TagsPress conference (PK); Competition; Berlin; Potsdamer Platz; Jury; Urban development planning; Urban development; Discussion; Discussion; Dispute topic; Senate building director; Urban planning; Building industry; Architecture; Draft; Architectural competition; Urban development competition; Expert judge; Criticism; Senate; Senator for Urban Development; Senate administration; Model exhibition; Model; Esplanade; Exhibition; Senate
- Decade1990
- Production Year1991
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- Actors
- PersonalitiesThomas Sieverts, Volker Hassemer, Jürgen Sawade, Gustav Peichl
- Director
- Producer
- CameraUwe Frenzel
- Original Clip IdentifierQ6UJ9A00AJCK
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