General informationOn July 25, 2001, the jury decided on the outcome of phase 2 of the project competition for the BMW Welt. Guided by the high quality of the entries and aware of the enormous effort made by the competitors, the jury awarded 1st prize to two offices: sauerbruch hutton, berlin and COOP Himmelb(l)au, Vienna.

After a third phase of design development, BMW decided on the COOP Himmelb(l)au proposal on December 12, 2001.

Construction of the project, entitled "Event and Delivery Center" throughout the competition, began in 2003. The building was then opened in 2007 under the new title "BMW Welt".



For further information please visit: www.bmw-welt.com.
SponsorBMW AG
TaskCustomers and visitors are to be offered a thematically integrated and emotionally intense total experience with BMW in connection with the delivery of new cars.
ProcedureIn cooperation with the City of Munich, BMW AG held a restricted planning competition proceeded by an international application process. The procedure was structured into an anonymous first phase with 27 participants and a cooperative second phase with 8 participants.
JuryArchitectural jurors:

•Prof. Marc Angélil, Los Angeles/Zurich
•Prof. Dietmar Eberle, Lochau
•Prof. Dietrich Fink, Munich
•Prof. Dr. Gunter Henn, Munich
•Prof. Peter Kulka, Cologne
•Prof. Ulrike Lauber, Munich
•Christiane Thalgott, Planning Commissioner, Munich
•Michael Triebswetter, Kassel
•Konrad Wohlhage, Berlin


Alternate architectural jurors:

•Jürgen Böge, Hamburg
•Gerd Burla, Zurich
•Franz Meyer, Planning Department, Munich
•Prof. Maya Reiner, Munich


Technical jurors:

•Prof. Joachim Milberg, Chairman of the Board, BMW AG
•Christian Ute, Mayor of Munich
•Ernst Baumann, Board of Directors Human Resources, BMW AG
•Dr. Michael Ganal, Board of Directors Distribution, BMW AG
•Karl-Heinz Kalbfell, Head of Marketing Group
•Jutta Koller, Munich City Council Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen
•Constanze Lindner-Schädlich, Munich City Council SPD
•Hans Podiuk, Munich City Council CSU


Alternate technical jurors:

•Klaus Bejenke, Project head, BMW AG
•Thomas Ruhfaß, Munich City Council CSU
•Dr. Bernd Schaible, Head of Central Services BMW AG
•Christine Strobl, Munich City Council SPD
•Ralph Weyler, Head of Distribution Germany, BMW AG
•Dr. Reinhard Wieczorek, Department of Labor and Economics, City of Munich
•Jörg Zintzmeyer, Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux AG, Zurich
Participants272 offices applied to participate in the international competition, of which 28 were invited to participate. The following 27 offices were took part in the first phase of the competition:

•COOP Himmelb(l)au, Prix & Swiczinsky GmbH, Vienna
•sauerbruch hutton architekten partnerschaft, Berlin
•Zaha Hadid Ltd., London
•Morphosis, Thom Mayne, Santa Monica
•MVRDV, Rotterdam
•Auer + Weber Freie Architekten, Munich
•Triad Architekten, Berlin
•Feichtinger Architectes SARL, Paris
•Königs Architekten, Cologne
•Reiser + Umemoto, New York
•Barkow Leibinger Architekten, Berlin
•J. Mayer H.-Architekten, Berlin
•Claude Vasconi & Partners, Paris
•Snøhetta AS, Oslo
•Dominique Perrault Architecte, Paris
•Massimiliano Fuksas Architetto, Rome
•Zamp Kelp, Düsseldorf
•Allmann, Sattler, Wappner Architekten, Munich
•Asymptote Architecture, New York
•Ackermann und Partner, Munich
•b&k+Architekten Dipl.-Ing.Stadtplaner, Cologne
•Fumihiko Maki & Maki and Associates, Tokyo
•Schneider + Schumacher, Frankfurt a.M.
•Wiel Arets & Associates, Maastricht
•Gigon Guyer Architekten, Zurich
•Future Systems, London
•Jan Störmer Architekten, Hamburg
Prizes and fees1st prize: Euro 43.000.-
1st prize: Euro 43.000.-
3rd prize: Euro 24.000.-
4th prize: Euro 12.000.-
Remuneration per participant for submitting a design in the 2nd phase: Euro 13.000.-