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1990 The basic approach for the redevelopment of Munich Airport takes shape. Once decommissioned, the airport site will be divided into three zones. The north will be reserved for businesses and the trade fair center, the middle for residential quarters, and the south for nature.
1992 The airport moves to a site to the north. The redevelopment of the decommissioned site – christened Messestadt Riem – begins.
1997 Gilles Vexlard and his Paris-based Latitude Nord win a competition to design Messestadt Riem's 200 hectare-large park.
The municipality of Munich is awarded the right to stage the National Garden Festival in 2005.
1998 The cultivation of the park begins.
1999 Bundesgartenschau München 2005 GmbH, the corporation responsible for the Festival, is founded.
2000 Rainer Schmidt (a landscape architect), Rainer Bauer (an architect) and mps (a firm of communication planners) win the competition to design BUGA.
2002 Construction work on the exhibition area begins.
2005 BUGA is staged.
 

 

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