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A green and growing community
 

MS Riem is a very young community.
The first of what will be 16,000 inhabitants moved to it in 1998, the year in which the city's fairgrounds - the centerpiece of the 560 hectare-large site - were inaugurated. The rest of what will some day be a business community employing 16,000 persons began arriving a year later.
Its youth notwithstanding, one fact is already apparent. This will be a community in which its residents, companies and nature all thrive. The reason: because each has been provided with what it needs to grow - and because all three of these components, the building blocks of sustainable development, are found in Messestadt Riem. This thriving is the product of a decade of meticulous planning and step-by-step implementation.

 

The creation of a community
Capping three decades of deliberation on the best possible locations for Munich's airport and fairgrounds, a competition was staged in 1990. Its subject: to come up with the most compelling plan for the site occupied by Munich Airport, and to find a more suitable home for the city's fairgrounds. The competition's winner was the Frankfurt-based Frauenfeld und Partner. Approved in 1991 by Munich's municipal council, the plan served as the basis for all subsequent processes of development.
In 1992, Bystrup, Bregenhoj und Partner won the competition to design Munich's new fairgrounds. A year later, the Copenhagen-based team of architects secured another first prize, this time, for their design of the areas flanking the fairgrounds. These include Messestadt Riem's central square. This was one of two complementary competitions staged in 1993. The other was for the first tranche of property to be developed into a residential area. It was won by Reiner-Weber-Hammer, Valentien + Valentien and Billinger, a working group of architects based in Munich, Weßling and Stuttgart respectively.
Competitions to design Messestadt Riem's schools and landscape park, cemetery and second residential area and park and ride lot followed.

 

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