Double cone interior of BMW Welt: 10 times the size of the Acropolis with one-tenth as many roof supports.
Jonathan Spira, BMWCCA
Oct. 16, 2007

Jonathan Spira is covering the opening of BMW Welt for BMWCCA.org and will be customer No. 1 at the BMW new car delivery center.
MUNICH, Tuesday (10/16) -- To celebrate the opening of BMW Welt, BMW held a dinner this evening at the Hofbräukeller on the Wienerstraße. In attendance were most of the key players including Rudolf Wiedermann, a long time BMW executive who is the director of BMW Welt, Paul Kath, Himmelb(l)au’s project partner for BMW Welt, and of course Prof. Wolf Prix, co-founder of Coop Himmelb(l)au and the architect who designed BMW Welt.


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