Braunschweig’s riverfront is a collision of times: medieval streets, post-war blocks, financial towers and the park around the VW Halle. The site reads like a chronological cross-section of the city, but this layered scene is so familiar that it has become almost invisible. Our proposal treats the project as a way to restore the city’s image to itself.

We introduce a series of tall, slender mirrored plates that work as urban instruments. Each plate is precisely oriented to catch and re-project fragments of the surrounding architecture, sky and trees. As people move between the historic centre, the “financial island,” the park and the arena, the mirrors stitch these episodes together into a moving montage: the city becomes both backdrop and protagonist.

The installation is reversible and walkable. Approaching the plates, visitors see themselves superimposed on facades and horizons that are usually seen only in passing. Walking along the route, the reflections shift, compressing distances and bending perspectives across the river and plazas. In this way, the project makes the everyday urban scene tangible again—turning a largely overlooked threshold into a collective mirror and a contemporary landmark for Braunschweig.