Oskar-von-Miller-Ring 20
The administration building Oskar-von-Miller-Ring 20 in Munich's Maxvorstadt was designed by the New York architect Richard Meier in 1999. It corresponds to his characteristic style with a smooth facade of white metal surfaces, interrupted by glass bands and with elegant curves . The building was created as a SiemensForum for Siemens AG . After the completion of the neighboring Siemens headquarters in 2016, it was completely renovated. It has been rented out under the name OSKAR , derived from the address, since 2017 .
building
The building's design was the result of a competition held in 1983 for an extension to the Siemens headquarters with space for 600 employees. The winner was the New York architect Richard Meier , known for his strict geometric shapes, light-flooded interiors and gleaming white, smooth facades. In the winning design, the wings of the building were already included in the form later realized. The entrance, however, was designed with a curved sign that separated the public street space from a semi-public space between the new building and the 1950s Oskar-von-Miller-Ring 18 building, which was then still owned by Siemens . It was important to Meier that his design fits into the cityscape, "historically and typologically".
However, Siemens initially postponed the competition result and commissioned Meier to build a complex of three laboratory and office buildings at the Siemens site in Munich- Obersendling . It wasn't until 1991 that the company came back to expanding its headquarters on Oskar-von-Miller-Ring. It took until 1997 for construction to begin, and in 1999 the building was completed. In the meantime, Meier had revised the entrance area of the design. Instead of a cavity, the shield now comprised a six-story rotunda, with the shield itself spanning only five stories.
The building has a gross floor area of 43,000 m² (26,500 m² of which is above-ground office space). Of the 9 floors, 6 are above the ground. The six-storey rotunda is remarkable.
The approximately 26,500 m² of office space that is available in the building was also completely renovated by 2017. Added to this is the redesign of the access situation, accompanied by Richard Meier, in the form of a new lobby; the roof terrace, which was previously not accessible to office users, will be opened and will be available to tenants. After the renovation, more than 1,000 people will work in the building.
use
The building was built as an extension for the Siemens main administration between Wittelsbacherplatz and the Altstadtring . When the company moved in in 1999, the company archive and the Siemens Museum were also moved from their previous headquarters in Prannerstrasse to the new building. In accordance with the name SiemensForum, the museum was assigned event rooms in which Siemens AG addressed the public. In the course of major restructuring of the Siemens group and in particular of the various locations in Munich, the need for office space on Oskar-von-Miller-Ring increased. The museum was closed in 2011 and replaced by a smaller exhibition that only used the rotunda in the entrance. During the construction of the new headquarters, various departments of the company management were housed in the rest of the building.
The building was sold in September 2013 to a consortium made up of the Hines Interests Limited Partnership and the National Pension Fund of Korea for an estimated 160 million euros.
Since 2018, the German branch of the American media company Condé Nast has been using around 1/3 of the office space in OSKAR as its German headquarters . Other users are the co-working provider WeWork and Amazon Web Services . At the end of 2018, Hines and the National Pension Service (NPS) fund sold the property to Swiss Life and Universal-Investment . The purchase price was given as 390 million euros.
Siemens Museum
In 1916, Siemens founded Germany's first company museum in Berlin . The Siemens archive has existed since 1906. When the company's headquarters were split between Berlin and Munich after the Second World War, the museum was relocated to Prannerstraße 10 in Munich on May 31, 1954 . In 1999 the company moved from Prannerstrasse to the new building on Oskar-von-Miller-Ring.
The permanent exhibition presented the development of electrical engineering and electronics through selected products of the company using multimedia means, whereby not only technical but also economic and social aspects are taken into account. The history of the company itself was also traced. The focus is on the areas of information and communication, energy, transport, industry and the environment and health. There were also special exhibitions on changing topics.
Until May 2016, the exhibition on Siemens history was located at Oskar-von-Miller-Ring 20, which is now in the showroom of the new Siemens headquarters at Werner-von-Siemens-Strasse 1 in Munich.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b Gernot Brauer: Munich architecture, urban development, urban design . München Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-937090-37-5 , p. 90 f.
- ↑ Sebastian Holmer, Claudia Kapsner, Steffen Krämer: Departure into the 21st Century - Munich Architecture and Urban Development since 1990 . Volk Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-86222-016-8 , p. 80 f.
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Real Estate in Munich - The Most Spectacular Deals , May 26, 2014
- ↑ Real estate report : Maxvorstadt: Swiss Life and Universal Investment buy Oskar , January 15, 2019
- ^ Siemens: Museum history
- ↑ Exhibitions | Siemens Historical Institute | Siemens. Retrieved September 18, 2019 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 43 " N , 11 ° 34 ′ 33" E