Highlight Towers

The Highlight Towers are two, completed in 2004, the office towers in Munich.

Location

The high-rises are located on the Highlight Munich Business Towers site in Munich at the corner of Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius at Münchner Tor Road between Middle Ring and the Federal Highway 9 in Schwabing. They are slightly offset in the historic line of sight from the Odeon Square on the road with Louis Victory Gate to the north and form a focal point for future visitors from the north of the city. The view from the apartments Schwabing on the Alpine chain is not affected by the north-south orientation of the tower. The Highlight Towers south towards the 85 meter high-rise is measured Münchner Tor. The same amount has on the northerly, also built by Jahn Skyline Tower Munich.

The Munich-based high-rise dispute

In the same year as the Highlight Towers and the 146 m high skyscraper solitaire Uptown Munich in Moosach was completed, the engagement- sensitive in the historical panorama of the Nymphenburg Palace rondel. The extent of both projects was conceived by the people only during the construction process and was met with heavy criticism, the politically articulated in the "Initiative our Munich " of the old mayor Georg Kronawitter. With a public petition on 21 November 2004 succeeded the initiative, with over 100 m altitude in Munich to prevent the construction of other buildings until further notice.

Architecture and Construction

The by architects Murphy / Jahn two (Chicago, USA ) planned towers 126 meters (Highlight Tower 1 ) and 113 meters (Highlight Tower 2 ) height have office space at 33 and 28 storeys, making it one of the tallest buildings in Munich. The high-rise buildings are connected by a power of two - bridge group from glass and steel in the ninth and tenth floor as well as a single bridge on the 20th floor. Each floor of the towers each have a floor area of ​​about 1000 square meters. The high-rise buildings in the form of two slender slices each in the form of parallelograms with width of 13.50 meters and a length of 80 meters. Wake up at 15 meters relative to one another. The distance between the two high-rise buildings is 20 meters. The office towers each have a 7.50 meter high lobby on the ground floor.

To the skyscrapers be divided two low-rise buildings: The five-story HighLight Forum is located along the middle ring and has a lettable area of ​​approximately 1000 square meters per floor on. In the second rise building with seven or five floors, a hotel with 160 guest rooms and suites and a conference area and a restaurant is housed. The hotel is operated by the chain Innside. Almost the entire building area is under sharing a three-storey car park with 750 parking spaces. The first basement can be reached by truck, so the complete supply and disposal takes place underground. Overall, the facility offers over 70,000 square feet of office space.

The realized design is the result of an international architectural competition. Desired were two possible designs in this competition: a slice of high-rise and a variant with twin towers. Simultaneously, the floor area should be distributed over more than two buildings, with the adjacent low-rise buildings should take into account the height of the surrounding buildings, so as to integrate the high-rise in the area.

The smooth glass facades make the building appear light and transparent and provide a good exposure of the offices. Openable window structures with wind protection and sound-absorbing allow employees in the high rises an individual ventilation and are part of an environmentally friendly air-conditioning and ventilation system. The safety concept includes full gesprinklerte floors and Sicherheitststreppenhäuser held as the fire brigade lifts in case of fire with pressure -smoking. The elevators are located on the mutually facing inner sides of the high-rise towers. Here are four elevators designed as a panoramic elevators in Tower 1 and Tower 2 in two and go outside the skyscraper windows.

The open space planning comes from Prof. Rainer Schmidt, Munich, builders were the KanAm Group, Munich and Aareal Bank, Wiesbaden.

Use

The most common users of the building are the consulting firm Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Tower 1 and the IT company Fujitsu Technology Solutions as well as the IP company Fish & Richardson in the smaller Tower 2