The Olympiaturm
Wednesday, 19th October 2005 by James Turnbull
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, which looks much cooler now the images are no longer squashed.
Bayern Munich FC used to play in the Olympiastadium – they just moved to a new arena which is still under construction on Google maps:
View Placemark
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.