ULI Award for Zurich's Kalkbreite
The Urban Land Institute Germany (ULI Germany) has honored a Swiss building cooperative for the first time as part of its Leadership Awards. The Kalkbreite cooperative in Zurich received the award in the Building Healthy Places category.
With its "Kalkbreite" project, the cooperative has developed "a convincing urban development result that not only has a positive impact on its surroundings, but also includes the neighborhood in the entire planning process as well as in its use," according to ULI.
"The Kalkbreite cooperative's project contains everything that a modern and future-oriented urban development should have. It is maximally participatory and it is sustainable in the dimensions of Environment, construction, social issues, infrastructure, economy and acceptance. This urban grassroots project has succeeded in creating a new piece of city in Zurich," says the laudator Ulrich Sierau, Mayor of the City of Dortmund and member of the ULI Germany Advisory Board
With its Leadership Award, ULI honors individuals and projects that have distinguished themselves through future-oriented action and thinking. These include pioneering developments in urban areas and successful real estate industry implementations with added social value.
Christian Ulbrich, Global CEO & President of Jones Lang LaSalle, won in the Real Estate Industry category. In the Public Sector category, Reiner Nagel, Chairman of the Board of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture, won the prize. Loimi Brautmann, Nicolas Kremershof and Oliver Kremershof from the Urban Media Project in Offenbach am Main won in the Young Leader category. (ah)
