BMW-Vierzylinder
BMW-Vierzylinder rises beside Munich’s Olympiapark and BMW’s main factory as a 101-metre landmark of modern architecture. Four rounded sections echo a car engine’s cylinders, while a central support tower suspends the office floors above the ground.
Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer designed the headquarters, built between 1968 and 1972 for the Munich Olympic period. Workers assembled individual floors at ground level before lifting them into position, creating the building’s distinctive suspended structure. Twenty-two floors make up the tower, including eighteen office floors and two basement levels, while BMW Museum and BMW Welt stand nearby.
The building became a protected historic monument in 1999, and its Olympic connection includes one striking detail. BMW branding disappeared during the 1972 Games, then vanished again when the tower appeared in the 1975 film Rollerball.
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