Planning office DTP Landscape Architects

What Planning office DTP Landscape Architects does

Planungsbüro DTP Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH (DTP) is a privately held German landscape architecture and urban planning firm headquartered in Essen, founded in 1990 by Peter Davids and Friedhelm Terfrüchte as Davids | Terfrüchte + Partner. The firm reorganized into its current GmbH legal form in 2014 and transitioned to second-generation leadership in 2017 under four managing shareholders: Klaus Tenhofen, Isabella de Medici, Martin Richardt, and Christian Uhlenbrock; the founders remain connected as advisors. DTP operates with 11–50 employees and serves primarily municipal governments and public authorities in the Metropole Ruhr and Nordrhein-Westfalen regions of Germany.

The firm's core offering is end-to-end landscape architecture, urban development, and environmental planning delivered across all HOAI service phases, from concept and citizen participation through design, construction execution, and supervision. Service lines include object planning of outdoor facilities (parks, sports facilities, educational campuses, urban squares, bike paths), concept planning (visionary spatial concepts, feasibility studies, framework plans), and dialog/participation services (workshops, online participation). DTP combines analog methods (hand sketches, paper drawings) with digital tools (computers, software, smartboards) and selectively integrates third-party technology such as YALP interactive sports equipment into public-recreation projects.

DTP's revenue model is professional services fees regulated under HOAI and procured primarily through competitive bidding, general planning assignments, and public procurement with municipal clients; pricing is project-specific and not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market motion is sales-led and relationship-driven, leveraging project portfolios, professional association memberships (BDLA, Architektenkammer NRW, DASL, SRL), and an award-winning track record in post-industrial landscape transformation, including landmark projects such as Carl-Alexander Park Baesweiler, BernePark Bottrop, Lippepark Hamm, and the 15.2 km Emscherpromenade.

Name

Planning office DTP Landscape Architects

Legal name

Planungsbüro DTP Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH

Website

https://dtp-essen.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Planungsbüro DTP Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH is a privately held landscape architecture and urban planning firm in Essen, Germany, founded in 1990, serving primarily municipal governments in the Ruhr region with end-to-end HOAI-compliant design, planning, and citizen participation services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Essen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Landscape Architecture Planning Services: DTP generates revenue through professional landscape architecture and urban planning services, including concept development, citizen participation processes, design, planning, construction execution, and supervision across all HOAI service phases.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

DTP is a professional landscape architecture and urban planning firm that conceives and builds urban landscapes — parks, public squares, sports and movement facilities, educational open spaces, riverside promenades, and redevelopments of former industrial sites — for municipal and public-sector clients. Service delivery spans all HOAI (Honorarordnung für Architekten und Ingenieure) service phases from concept development, citizen participation, design and planning through to construction execution and supervision. The firm operates as a sales-led consultancy with project-based commissions.

Product overview

DTP (Planungsbüro DTP Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH) is a landscape architecture and urban planning firm based in Essen, Germany. The company offers professional services in landscape architecture, urban development, and environmental planning rather than a software product. Their service portfolio includes object planning of outdoor facilities (Freianlagen) following HOAI standards, covering multicoded sports and movement parks, open educational spaces in urban quarters, central city squares, redesign of former shopping streets, heritage-listed facilities and historical sites, and eco-friendly mobility axes and bike paths. DTP also provides concept planning including visionary spatial concepts, future-oriented potential analyses and feasibility studies, integrated concepts and framework plans, and networking open space concepts. Additionally, they offer dialog and participation services such as process support and project management, open and user-specific participation formats, expert workshops, and online participation. The firm has experience in general planning related to open space developments and expert opinions on damage assessments for outdoor facilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Landschaftsarchitektur (Landscape Architecture) — Object Planning of Outdoor Facilities (Freianlagen) per HOAI
• Stadtentwicklung (Urban Development) — Concept Planning
• Dialog- und Beteiligungsprozesse (Dialog and Participation Services) Process support and project management for participatory planning, including open and user-specific participation formats, expert workshops, and online participation. Designed to support public-sector clients in citizen engagement for landscape and urban-planning projects.
• Generalplanung Open Space Developments (General Planning) General-planning services for open-space developments, coordinating the full project delivery from concept through implementation across all relevant HOAI service phases.
• Gutachten (Expert Opinions on Damage Assessments for Outdoor Facilities) Expert-opinion and damage-assessment services for outdoor facilities (Freianlagen), provided to public-sector and private clients.
• Umweltplanung (Environmental Planning) Environmental planning services that integrate aspects of species protection, nature conservation, climate resilience, biodiversity and stormwater management into landscape and urban-development projects from project inception.

Quantifiable outcome

• Multiple landmark projects completed including Carl-Alexander Park (85ha), Lippepark Hamm (42ha), Bernepark Bottrop, Gleispark Frintrop - many recognized with national and regional awards
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

16 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• PASD Feldmeier Wrede Architekten BDA Stadtplaner SRLcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWon the landscape planning and urban planning competition together with DTP in 2002 for the Carl-Alexander Park project - a landmark development converting former mining site.
• IFS Beratende IngenieureminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEngineering consulting partner for Carl-Alexander Park project.
• Asmus + Prabucki Ingenieure Beratungsgesellschaft mbHminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEngineering consulting partner for Carl-Alexander Park project.
• Licht | Raum | StadtminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLighting planning partner for Carl-Alexander Park project.
• YALP InteractiveminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerProvided interactive digital sports equipment (soccer goals) for Jugendfreizeitstätte Oberhausen project.
• YALP InteractiveminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerProvided interactive football wall (YALP) for Sportpark Styrum project.
• Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt ArchitektencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitecture firm collaborating on Bernepark Bottrop project.
• Piet Oudolf (Landscape Designer)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerInternationally renowned landscape designer who created planting concept for Bernepark's 'Theater der Pflanzen' sunken garden.
• Mischa Kuball, Lawrence Weiner, Andreas Strauss (Artists)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerInternational artists integrated into Bernepark Bottrop project.
• Observatorium (Rotterdam)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated with DTP on Der Park kommt in die Stadt Herten project, developing urban design concept and engaging with citizens.
• Martin Kohler, HamburgminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborated on Der Park kommt in die Stadt Herten urban design concept.
• Hower LandschaftsarchitektenminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperation partner on Campus am Eichholz project in Arnsberg.
• Knappmann GmbH & Co. KGminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerConstruction partner for Emscherpromenade project.
• licht | raum | stadt planung GmbHminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerLighting planning partner for Emscherpromenade and Museumsentrée Velbert projects.
• Kersting Gallhoff ArchitektenminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerArchitecture firm collaborating on Freizeitanlage Westerholt Herten project.
• DSGN ConceptsminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerSkate facility design for Sport- und Bürgerpark Baesweiler project.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Topotek 1 Architektur und Landschaft: Berlin-based landscape architecture firm with internationally recognized urban and landscape design work — overlapping with DTP in public space, plaza, and park design for municipalities.
• RMP Stephan Lenzen Landschaftsarchitekten: Cologne-based landscape architecture practice with strong municipal and HOAI-aligned public realm work in NRW — directly comparable peer in the same regional and competitive landscape as DTP.
• bbz Landschaftsarchitekten Berlin: Berlin-based landscape architecture firm of similar size with comparable municipal and open-space planning work, including citizen participation processes — directly comparable peer in the German landscape architecture market.
• WES & Partner Landschaftsarchitekten: Hamburg-based landscape architecture practice with comparable scale and a strong municipal/public-sector portfolio across northern Germany; overlaps with DTP in HOAI-driven urban and park planning for cities.
• Lützow 7 Müller Wehberg Landschaftsarchitekten: Berlin landscape architecture firm focused on public space, urban regeneration, and participatory planning — overlapping with DTP's core services and public-sector client focus.
• Club L94 Landschaftsarchitekten: Cologne-based landscape architecture firm with comparable scale and HOAI-aligned public-sector work — directly competes with DTP in NRW municipal tender processes.
• Planergruppe Oberhausen: Oberhausen-based landscape and urban planning firm of comparable size with public-sector Ruhr region focus — overlaps directly with DTP on municipal commissions in the same geography.

Regional players

• Hager Partner AG Landschaftsarchitekten: Swiss landscape architecture practice with similar project scale (large parks, urban regeneration) and award-winning portfolio — closely comparable in craft, though operating primarily in Switzerland rather than Germany.

Emerging players

• Agence Ter: Pan-European landscape and urban planning firm known for large-scale public space and metropolitan strategies — comparable to DTP in scale of intervention, though operating in France/Germany borderlands rather than Ruhr.

Broad incumbents

• SWA Group: Large international landscape architecture firm with extensive municipal, urban regeneration, and park design portfolio — comparable to DTP in service offering but operating at much greater scale across multiple geographies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/dtp_landschaftsarchitekten

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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