BMW-Welt Trias Bridge,
Munich, Germany
SCOPE OF WORK
General contractor for planning and realisation of approx. 100m long pedestrian bridge: structural work, steelwork, metalwork, electro-technology and light technology, floor finish.
INNOVATIONS
AND CHALLENGES
Realisation of partly 3-dimensional curved and twisted building geometry with 2 and 3 dimensionally curved stainless steel sheet cladding. Extremely short execution period.
DATA
Overall Project Time:
2007
Execution Period:
6 Months
Architecture team, founded in Vienna in 1968. Neo-expressionists of international stand-ing. Rigorously experimental deconstructivists. O-Ton Founding Manifesto: "We want architecture that bleeds, cuts to the quick, exhausts, illuminates, bursts under expansion … architecture must be shocking … cold as ice … hot as fire"
Selected Awards
- 1999, Austrian National Prize for Architecture.
- 2001, European Steel Design Award.
- 2002, Officers of the Order of Arts and Letters, Vienna.
www.coop-himmelblau.at