BMW Event and Delivery Center, Munich

Architectural Competition

 

Aedes Cooperation Partners

 

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BMW Event and Delivery Center, Munich

Aedes presents the results of the competition initiated by BMW and the City of Munich for the BMW Event and Delivery Center. The idea for the Center will be a central communication and meeting point for both customers and the general public. In an open competition 27 architecture offices have been elected anonymously out of a number of 275 participants. In the following 2. phase of the competion 8 architects have been selected, as there are: Auer and Weber (Munich), COOP HIMMELB(L)AU (Vienna), Sauerbruch Hutton (Berlin), Feichtinger Architects (Paris), MVRDV (Rotterdam), Morphosis (Santa Monica), Triad Architects, Karl Karau with Bernd Lampe, Dirk Bertuleit and Sandra Töpfer (Berlin) and Zaha Hadid (London). The two first prizes have been awarded to Sauerbruch Hutton (Berlin) and to COOP HIMMELB(L)AU (Vienna). The designs that came third and fourth were produced by the architectural practices of Zaha Hadid Ltd. and Morphosis. In December 2001 the Board of Management of BMW AG decided to follow the idea of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, a convincing project because of its clear identification with and its correlation to the Corporate Identity of BMW. The project goes hand in hand in a visionary combination with the Olympic Complex and the BMW highrise. The character of the building itself reveals flexibility and transparency. The remarkable result of this competion is also a very interesting outlook on the contemporary architecture scene: 27 designs of both young and promising talents as well as internationally renowned architects are displayed in the exhibition. The prosperity of the manifold solutions is surprising and fascinating concerning the level of architecture nowadays.

Speakers at the opening will be:
Kristin Feireiss, Berlin
Richard Gaul, BMW Group, Munich
Peter Kulka, Chairman of the Jury, Cologne