MediaPark cologne: A large high tech project to develop Cologne's inner city

All over the world the development in microelectronics and the internationalisation of communications and media production and transmission leads to financial and technological merges: computer and communication and information industries move closer together and give birth to new products, services and organisations. In Cologne, on a large inner city site of 200.000 m² near the Rhine, the Cathedral, Broadcasting Centres and the Central Business District, an innovative development project is under way to promote the further growth and acceptance of new technics and new media production. MediaPark is designed as a centre for activities in microelectronics, arts presentation and production, and centres for professional architectural competition for the design and structure of the planned land use has just started.