| Last news | In an all-day meeting in March 2002, the jury awarded prizes to three of the nine submitted design proposals. First prize went to the team of Zaha Hadid (London) with landscape architects Gross.Max, (Edinburgh).
Execution started immediately after the competition’s conclusion. Construction work was filmed by several webcams and is webcast at www.bmw-werk-leipzig.de The factory and the central building were inaugurated in a ceremony with chancelor Gerhard Schröder on May 13, 2005.
Central building, May 2005 |
| Location | In the Halle/Leipzig region of Germany, the BMW Group built a new factory in the immediate vicinity of the New Leipzig Trade Fair grounds. |
| Project content | Construction of the factory building started in early 2002. Manufacture of the BMW 3-series cars began in the new factory in 2005.
In the competition, the scope of work included the design for the new factory's Central Building (serving as the entrance as well as for administrative and communication purposes), facade design of the adjoining factory halls (to be developed on the basis of the Central Building's design) as well as the design of the adjacent outdoor space. |
| Procedure | In coordination with Leipzig’s City Council, BMW launched a restricted, open competition for architects and landscape planners preceded by a world-wide open application procedure. The competition procedure comprised an anonymous phase with 24 competitors and a co-operative non-anonymous phase with nine shortlisted competitors. |
| Jury | Architectural jurors:
| • | Prof. Marc Angélil, Los Angeles/Zurich | | |
• | Prof. Dietrich Fink, Munich | | |
• | Guido Hager, Zurich | | |
• | Christoph Ingenhoven, Düsseldorf (withdrew) | | |
• | Prof. Henning Rambow, Leipzig | | |
• | Prof. Matthias Sauerbruch, Berlin/London (jury chair) | | |
• | Uwe Schumann, Leipzig. |
Alternate Architectural jurors:
| • | Undine Giseke, Berlin | | |
• | Prof. Burkhard Pahl, Darmstadt/Leipzig |
Technical jurors:
| • | Peter Claussen, Project Manager BMW Leipzig Factory, BMW AG | | |
• | Franz Cremer, Head Technology Integration, BMW AG | | |
• | Dr. Joachim Fischer, Member of the City Council’s SPD faction, Leipzig | | |
• | Dr. Engelbert Lütke Daltrup, Councillor for Urban Development and Construction, City of Leipzig | | |
• | Dr. Norbert Reithöfer, Member of the Board of Directors – Manufacturing, BMW AG |
Alternate technical jurors:
| • | Nikolaus Bauer, Project Manager Logistics BMW Leipzig Factory, BMW AG | | |
• | Andreas Habicht, Member of the City Council’s CDU faction, Leipzig | | |
• | Wolfgang Kunz, Head City Planning Office, Leipzig | | |
• | Rudolf Reichenauer, Project Manager Staff BMW Leipzig Factory, BMW AG | | |
• | Kurt Sposta, Head Construction and Energy – Manufacturing, BMW AG |
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| Prizes and fees | Approx. 306,000.- Euro in total was made available for prizes and fees.
| 1st prize: | 33,000.- Euro | |
2nd prize: | 20,000.- Euro | |
3rd prize: | 13,000.- Euro |
Each participant in the 2nd phase received 30,000.- Euro remuneration for submitting a design proposal fulfilling requirements stipulated in the competition brief. |
| Participants in phases 1 and 2 | | - | Barkow Leibinger (Berlin) with Christiane Sörensen (Hamburg) | | |
- | Armand Grüntuch and Almut Ernst (Berlin) with Topotek 1 (Berlin) | | |
- | Zaha Hadid (London) and Gross.Max (Edinburgh) | | |
- | Hermann + Öttl (Munich) with Tobias Frauscher (Munich) | | |
- | Peter Kulka (Dresden/Cologne) with Kluska (Munich) | | |
- | Lab Architecture (Melbourne/London) with Karres en Brands (Hilversum) | | |
- | Greg Lynn and House+Robertson (Los Angeles) with Calvin Abe (Los Angeles) | | |
- | Reiser Umemoto (New York) with Helmut Wartner (Landshut) | | |
- | Ian Ritchie (London) and Isterling & Partner (Hamburg) |
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| Participants in phase 1 only | | - | Alsop Architects (London) with Grant Associates (Bath) | | |
- | Auer + Weber (Stuttgart) with Stötzer + Neher (Sindelfingen) | | |
- | Eike Becker_Architekten with Gruppe F (Berlin) | | |
- | Benthem Crouwel Architekten (Amsterdam) with Kaap 3 (Rotterdam) | | |
- | Odile Decq-Benoit Cornette with Luis Benech (Paris) | | |
- | LANGHOF Planungsgesellschaft mbH (Berlin) with Heike Langenbach (Vienna) | | |
- | lauber architekten (Munich) with Thomanek + Duquesnoy (Berlin) | | |
- | Poitiers Architekten (Hamburg) with Atelier Loidl (Berlin) | | |
- | KARO-architekten with Almuth Krause (Leipzig) | | |
- | Schneider + Schumacher with Prof. Mürb + Ulla Schuch (Frankfurt) | | |
- | schulz & schulz architekten gmbh (Leipzig) with Müller, Peuker, Kampfer (Leipzig) | | |
- | BRT Architekten BDA (Hamburg) with Bendfeldt Schröder Franke (Kiel) | | |
- | Erick van Egeraat associated architects with West 8 (Rotterdam) | | |
- | Architekturbüro Angela Wandelt with Knoll Ökoplan (Leipzig) | | |
- | Léon Wohlhage Wernik Architekten GmbH with ST raum.a (Berlin) |
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| Dates | | Deadline for application | September 24, 2001 | | |
Jury colloquium | October 15, 2001 | | |
Selection committee meeting | October 15 and 16, 2001 | | |
Distribution of materials, phase 1 | October 22, 2001 | | |
Online forum | October 19, 2001 until November 6, 2001 | | |
Competitors' colloquium (in Regensburg) | October 31, 2001 | | |
Submission of entries, phase 1 | November 22, 2001 | | |
Jury meeting, phase 1 | December 17, 2001 | | |
Distribution of materials, phase 2 | December 20, 2001 | | |
Colloquium, phase 2 | January 9 and 10, 2002 | | |
Submission of entries, phase 2 | February 18, 2002 | | |
Submission of models | February 25, 2002 | | |
Jury meeting, phase 2 | March 22, 2002 | | |
Exhibition Leipzig City Hall | June 4 to 23, 2002 |
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