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| Foster + Partners unveils the Aurelis masterplan for Duisburg Leading UK architectural firm Foster + Partners has revealed the Aurelis masterplan for Duisburg in the Ruhr region of Germany, which will regenerate a 36-hectare site close to the city centre with a major new commercial and residential hub. The project will extend the lively, mixed-use character of the practice's masterplan for Duisburg's centre and Inner Harbour to create a thriving new business community with shops, cafés, homes and an extensive green heart. The Aurelis masterplan occupies a prime location – the Alter Güterbahnhof – close to Duisburg's arterial road network and the main railway station, which is just 10 minutes by train from Düsseldorf airport. The elongated site forms an island within the city centre, bounded by a motorway on one side and railway lines on the other. Access to the site is restricted to just the northern and southern points, so the masterplan will reinstate a lateral connection to the adjacent residential neighbourhoods by raising the former railway tracks currently buried under the landscape. The park is a continuous landscape that creates a green link to the River Rhein and provides a focal point for the new development, intersected by pathways to establish new pedestrian links to the city. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |