The Olympiaturm
The Olympiaturm (Olympic Tower) and the Olympic Park with its stadium were built for the 1972 Summer Olympics.
The building’s transparent design was apprently inspired by soap-bubbles and dew-covered cobwebs, I don’t see cobwebs but the building is quite reflective, as can be seen by the “flares” of light. You can also have a look from the tower with the ‘Towercam‘.
Thanks: Thomas, Mark D, Carson Diltz, Brittany, Jens Kilian, Thomas, Erich Schubert, birphborph, Matt Large, Marcus Huber, ShadowDuke, Otto
That’s *really* cool
I can totally see the cobweb effect – you can see right through the ‘roof’ to the seating below, and theres a criss-cross pattern visible there.
Interestingly this is just beside the preiously posted [BMW HQ][1], which looks much cooler now the images are no longer squashed.
[1]: http://googlesightseeing.com/2005/07/02/bavarian-motor-works/
Bayern Munich FC used to play in the Olympiastadium - they just moved to a new arena which is still under construction on Google maps:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
The new stadium - called the Allianz Arena - is absolutelty magnificent as well, here the official web page:
http://www.allianzarena.de/
the Olympic tower has actually built before the Olympics in 1972 as a television tower and has been renamed “Olympiaturm” in 1972 and still works as a TV tower - now broadcasting digi-TV.