Highlight Towers
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| Highlight Towers from the southwest | |
| Basic data | |
| Place: | Munich-Schwabing |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | office building |
| Owner : | Commerz Real |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 126.0 / 113.0 m |
| Floors : | 33/28 upper floors |
| Height comparison | |
| Munich : | 2nd / 4th ( list ) |
| Germany : | 31. / 48. ( list ) |
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| City: | Munich |
| Country: | Germany |
The Highlight Towers are two office towers completed in 2004 in Munich's Parkstadt Schwabing .
location
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The skyscrapers are located on the Highlight Munich Business Towers area in Munich on the corner of Mies-van-der-Rohe and Walter-Gropius-Straße at Münchner Tor between Mittlerem Ring and Bundesautobahn 9 in Schwabing . They are slightly offset in the historical line of sight from Odeonsplatz over Ludwigstrasse with Siegestor over Leopoldstrasse to the north and form an eye-catcher for visitors to the city coming from the north. The view of the Alpine chain from the apartments in Parkstadt Schwabing is not impaired by the north-south orientation of the high-rise. Opposite the Highlight Towers to the south is the 85-meter high-rise Münchner Tor . The Skyline Tower Munich , also built by Jahn, is at the same height to the north .
The Munich skyscraper dispute
In the same year as the Highlight Towers, the 146 m high-rise solitary unit Uptown Munich in Moosach was completed, which interfered with the historic panorama of the Nymphenburg palace rondel. The extent of both projects was only understood by the population as construction progressed and met with severe criticism, which was politically articulated in the " Our Munich Initiative " by former Mayor Georg Kronawitter . With a referendum on November 21, 2004, the initiative succeeded in preventing the construction of further buildings over 100 m in height in Munich until further notice.
Architecture and construction
The two towers planned by the architects Murphy / Jahn ( Chicago , USA) with a height of 126 meters (Highlight Tower 1) and 113 meters (Highlight Tower 2) have office space on 33 and 28 floors respectively and are therefore among the tallest buildings in Munich . Connect the skyscrapers by a two-bridge group of building bridges of glass and steel in the ninth and tenth floor and a single bridge on the 20th floor. The towers each have a floor area of around 1000 square meters. The skyscrapers are in the form of two slender panes, each in the form of parallelograms, 13.50 meters wide and 80 meters long. They are offset from one another by 15 meters. The distance between the two high-rise buildings is 20 meters. The office towers each have a 7.50 meter high lobby on the ground floor.
Two low-rise buildings are arranged around the high-rise buildings: The five-storey HighLight Forum is located along the Middle Ring and has around 1000 square meters of rental space per floor. The second low-rise building with seven or five floors houses a hotel with 160 guest rooms and suites as well as a conference area and a restaurant. The hotel is operated by the Innside chain . Almost the entire construction area is covered by a three-storey car park with 750 parking spaces. The first basement can be approached by truck, so that all supply and disposal takes place underground. In total, the facility offers over 70,000 square meters of office space.
The implemented design emerged from an international architectural competition. Two possible designs were desired for this competition: a disc high-rise version and one with twin towers . At the same time, the floor area should be distributed over more than two buildings, whereby the adjacent low-rise buildings should take into account the height of the surrounding buildings in order to integrate the high-rise into the surrounding area.
The smooth glass facades make the buildings appear light and transparent and ensure that the offices are well lit. Openable window constructions with wind protection and sound insulation elements allow the employees in the high-rise buildings individual ventilation and are part of an environmentally friendly air conditioning and ventilation system. The safety concept includes fully sprinkled floors and safety stairwells which, like the fire brigade elevators, are kept smoke-free in the event of a fire with overpressure. The elevators are located on the facing inner sides of the high-rise towers. Four elevators in Tower 1 and two in Tower 2 are designed as panoramic elevators and run outside the high-rise windows.
The open space planning comes from Prof. Rainer Schmidt, Munich, the clients were the KanAm Group , Munich and Aareal Bank , Wiesbaden.
use
The best-known users of the buildings are Fujitsu , and from 2016 the IT and consulting companies Unify and IBM . Previously used Roland Berger the building.
literature
- Claus U. Schmidt: Highlight Towers, Braun Verlagshaus, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-935455-66-6
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Highlight I at CTBUH
- ↑ Highlight II at CTBUH
- ↑ New tenant in the HighLight Towers
- ↑ merkur.de: IBM moves into the HighLight Towers
- ↑ deal-magazin.com: Unify is the new major tenant in the Munich HighLight Towers
Web links
- Internet presence of the Highlight Towers ( Memento from November 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Film about the construction of the Highlight Towers
Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 36 " N , 11 ° 35 ′ 32" E