As project landscape architect & office manager of the Potsdamer Platz Project, Berlin in the 90’s in the office Krüger & Möhrle Stuttgart/Berlin responsible for the design of all the extensive and intensive green roofs, courtyards and atriums we designed the atrium for one of Sir Richard Rogers buildings. The architects envisioned a ‘green’ slope combining the split-level atrium. Prof. Möhrle and I decide to come up with the opposite of the typical lush green calming experience up the escalator. We proposed piranha fish tanks alongside the escalator to create a dramatic sense of arrival. This sketch depicts this idea. At this time architects were not ready for the abstraction or a totally different landscape architecture experience without thinking ‘green’. Since than we have come a long way in landscape architecture. Pioneering work is often hidden on paper, but ‘paper architecture’ is also a design, just not executed, whatever the circumstances might be.
