Autumn 1958 marked the launching of the Bodensee-Wasserversorgung (Lake
Constance water supply), an infrastructure project whose largest part is
underground. Even in the first phase of the project, 2160 liters of
water per second were taken from Lake Constance and transported over
hundreds of kilometers of pipeline to the greater Stuttgart area. What
is remarkable about this project is the special quality of the design of
the visible parts of the waterworks, a result of the collaboration of
engineers, architects, landscape designers and artists: Hermann
Blomeier, architect; Walter Rossow, landscape architect; Hans-Dieter
Bohnet, Martin Matschinsky and Brigitte Matschinksy-Denninghof, visual
artists.