BMW four-cylinder
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BMW four-cylinder BMW tower, BMW high-rise |
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| BMW high-rise | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | Munich |
| Construction time : | 1968-1972 |
| Opening: | 1973 |
| Renovation: | 2004-2006 |
| Architect : | Karl Schwanzer |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | office |
| Jobs : | about 1500 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 101 m |
| Height to the roof: | 101 m |
| Floors : | 22nd |
| Usable area : | 72,000 m² |
| Building material : | Concrete , aluminum |
| Height comparison | |
| Munich : | 5. ( list ) |
| Germany : | 66. ( list ) |
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| City: | Munich |
| Country: | Germany |
The BMW four-cylinder (also: BMW tower , BMW high-rise ) is the main administrative building and landmark of the vehicle manufacturer BMW in Munich . The building is 101 m high and has a diameter of 52.30 meters. It has a total of 22 floors, including two basement floors and 18 office floors.
The BMW high-rise is on Petuelring in the Am Riesenfeld district of Munich , in the immediate vicinity of the Munich Olympic site . The BMW Museum is right next to the BMW four-cylinder , opposite the BMW Welt on Lerchenauerstrasse .
construction
The BMW high-rise is one of the must-see examples of modern architecture in Munich. It consists of four vertical cylinders arranged side by side in a cross shape, each cylinder being divided horizontally again by pulling back the facade above the center. The statics of the building is remarkable, not as these cylinders on the floor stand , but in the striking cantilevers hanging , which protrude from the four reinforced concrete pipes, which form the core of the building, and in which lines, elevators and stairways are housed.
history
The building was built between 1968 and 1973, the exterior was completed on time for the 1972 Summer Olympics and inaugurated on May 18, 1973. The architect was the Austrian Karl Schwanzer (1918–1975), who also planned the BMW Museum. The civil engineer Helmut Bomhard der Dywidag was responsible for the structural planning .
The individual floors were built on the ground in the shell including the facade and glazing and then pulled upwards so that the finishing work could take place while the next floor was being built underneath. As a result, huge scaffolding was saved and considerable time was saved.
The BMW high-rise was Munich's tallest office building when it was completed, but a few years later it was surpassed by the 114-meter-high Hypo high -rise .
The building, which has been a listed building since 1999 , was renovated from 2004 to August 2006.
Others
Since the BMW logos are attached to the building, they had to be approved by the state capital of Munich, which regularly tries to prevent advertising on a building.
In the film Rollerball, the futuristic building was the headquarters of one of several world-ruling mega-corporations.
Entrance area
View from the level of the foyer (center of the picture the BMW Museum; left the Olympic tower)
BMW headquarters seen from the Olympic Tower, in front of it the bowl-shaped BMW Museum
Aerial photo of the Munich BMW area with four-cylinder (March 2014)
Front view from below
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literature
- Gerwin Zohlen (Ed.): Modernizing an Icon. The revitalization of the BMW high-rise in Munich. Schweger Associated Architects, Verlag Niggli AG Sulgen / Zurich, ISBN 978-3-7212-0656-2 .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The BMW "four-cylinder" - the headquarters of the BMW Group , November 10, 2008.
- ↑ structurae.de; BMW four-cylinder
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 37 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 36 ″ E
