The BUGA-short for 'Bundesgartenschau' ("Federal Garden Exhibition" is held every two years in Germany, whose communities compete vigorously for the honor of staging it.

That's because of the media attention accorded to the event. This attention joins with the Germans' proverbial love for horticulture in unleashing a stream of hundreds of thousands of visitors during each exhibition's six-month run.

For the communities staging it, BUGA represents much more than opportunities to dazzle their residents' eyes with consummately comprehensive, delightfully artistic displays of flora. Rather, the holding of the exhibitions forms an integral component of the re-engineering of entire urban districts.

As BUGA 2005's slogan shows, these re-engineerings have impressive scopes and impacts. The slogan is "Building sustainable development into a new neighborhood". The 'new neighborhood' referred to is MS Riem. As the slogan indicates, 2005's exhibition is planned to be an exemplification of sustainable development, the credo that economic and environmental imperatives have to be engineered into harmony if the human being is to survive.

The credo found eloquent expression at 1992's Conference on the Environment and Development. Held in Rio de Janeiro, the conference concluded with the finalization of Agenda 21.

Its 40 chapters pertain to all aspect of human activity. In view of this inclusiveness, it's not surprising that BUGA 2005 is being staged in both a main venue--Riem's landscape park, which covers 200 hectares--and in a number of the areas under residential and commercial development in the district.

Facts and Figures

BUGA briefing
In 1997, MS Riem was awarded the honor of staging BUGA. Beating out 25 competitors, Rainer Schmidt (a professor of landscape architecture) and Reinhard Bauer (an architect) were commissioned in November, 2000 with the designing of the garden exhibition. Their winning design employs the forms found in nature to array the exhibition's flora and the paths providing access to it.

For further information, please contact

BUGA 2005 GmbH
Frau Andrea Gebhard
Maria-Theresia-Str. 12
D-81675 München
Tel. (+49-89) 41 20 05 0
Fax: (+49-89) 41 94 90 90
E-mail: andrea.gebhard@buga2005.de
Internet: www.buga2005.de

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