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The Allianz Arena is a football stadium with a 75,000 seating capacity, the first stadium in the world with a full colour changing exterior

The Allianz Arena 2005

Seating area of the Allianz Arena

BMW Headquarters (BMW Tower) is a Munich landmark declared a protected historic building in 1999. The Tower was built between 1968 and 1972. The 101-metre (331 ft) building is located near the Olympic Village. The tower's exterior is supposed to mimic the shape of four cylinders in a car engine, with the museum representing a cylinder head. Both buildings were designed by the Austrian architect Karl Schwanzer

The main tower consists of four vertical cylinders standing next to and across from each other. Each cylinder is divided horizontally in its center by a mold in the facade. Notably, these cylinders do not stand on the ground; they are suspended on a central support tower. During the construction, individual floors were assembled on the ground and then elevated. The tower has a diameter of 52.30 metres (171.6 ft)

BMW Welt (BMW World)

The Olympic Tower (Olympiaturm) in the Olympic

Park, was built for the 1972 Summer Olympics. It has an

overall height of 291 m 

View to the BMW Headquarters

from the Observation Deck

of the Olympic Tower in Munich

The BMW Museum is located right next to the tower while BMW Welt, which showcases the current cars of BMW and acts as a distribution centre, opened on the opposite side of the road on 17 October 2007

BMW Welt (BMW World) is a multi-use exhibition center used for meetings and promotional events, and where buyers take delivery of BMW vehicles

BMW Welt at night

Munich The HypoVereinsbank tower, 1975-1981

Munich Hauptsynagoge Ohel Jakob

Hauptsynagoge Ohel Jakob

Isartor is one of four main gates of the medieval city wall

Isartor, part of the fortifications erected by Ludwig the Bavarian in the early 14th century

Bavarian State Library 

Fountain Courtyard (Brunnenhof)

Odeonsplatz

Hofgarten (Court Garden)

Bavarian S

tate Chancellery

Hofgarten (Court Garden) and Odeonsplatz

Königsplatz (King's Square) built in the

style of European Neo-Classicism in

the 19th century, is a center of cultural

life

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Old botanic garden

The area around Königsplatz is today the home to the Kunst areal, Munich's gallery and museum quarter

The Ionic Glyptothek was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures 1816  

The Doric Propylaea (Propyläen) created as memorial for the accession of Otto of Greece, 1862

Nazi book burnings occurred at Königsplatz in 1933

Karl von Fischer modeled the Königsplatz on the Acropolis in Athens

Königsplatz State Museum of Classical Art

 Propylaea

  Glyptothek

Leopoldstrasse and Siegestor

A long thin park in southwest Munich, made between 1978 and 1983, Westpark hosted the 1983 IGA (International Garden Show). It is a good example of the style of the times: curvilinear abstract modern, with daring use of herbaceous plants. A green bridge carries the park over Garmischer Strasse. There are a number of Asian gardens and structures in Westpark

Alf Lechner - Wasserplastik

WestparkAsian ensemble Japanese garden

The Japanese garden was a gift

from Munich's sister City

Sapporo and combines

elements from the Hainan period

Nepalese pagoda The pagoda was shipped to Munich in sections from Nepal and re-assembled in the park

The Chinese garden is known

as "Der Garten von Duft und Pracht" (The

Garden of Fragrance and

Beauty)

Its design is symbolic of the

Chinese philosophy that

human life should adapt to and follow the passage of the

four seasons

WestparkAsian ensemble Chinese garden

A free standing Thai-Sala hosts the first consecrated Gautama Buddha statue in

Germany

The Mollsee is an artificial lake situated in the eastern section of the park

The Thai Sala in the Sendling-Westpark is a gift of a German businessman from Bangkok

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanuhttps://plus.google.com/+SandaMichaela

Sound: Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra & Herbert von Karajan) 2016