Overview
- Global Goals Berlin and architecture firm gmp presented a detailed concept at MIPIM in Cannes for hosting a world exposition on the former Tegel airport grounds.
- gmp’s study covers roughly 127 hectares with an Expo Plaza, an arena, Germany and Berlin pavilions, and a proposed observation tower, and it envisions reuse within the Urban Tech Republic.
- Expo 2035 Berlin GmbH’s showcase was supplemented by feasibility studies from the Academy for Architectural Culture, which proposed alternative spatial concepts for the site.
- Tegel Projekt GmbH, which steers the Urban Tech Republic, stated it sees no basis to provide areas there for Expo use, signaling institutional resistance to the Tegel option.
- Alternative locations face hurdles, with Marzahn constrained and linked to a failed battery plant over a protected species and Schönefeld lacking mention in Brandenburg’s new SPD–CDU coalition text, and no official Berlin bid has been launched.