The Westin Grand München Hotel, until 2009 Sheraton
Visualisation of the Green High-rise
Arabellapark
The 32 hectares area of Arabellapark is Munich's only high-rise cluster. A mix of residential, office, retail and hotel uses has been realized in Arabellapark. In several decades of construction activity, a variety of building forms in different modern architectural styles and heights have been created since the 1970s. Today, 10,000 people live here and another 18,000 work in the offices, stores and hotels. Since 1988, the subway has provided access to the district center in Munich's northeast.
From the beginning, Arabellapark was designed by Josef Schörghuber (Bayerische Hausbau) as a self-sufficient "city within the city". The individual high-rise buildings were planned by different architects and reflect the current zeitgeist. This ranges from the sober functionalism of the 1960s and 70s to the cool aluminum and glass of the 1980s, from the postmodernism of the 1990s to the simpler and more sustainable architecture of the present.
Munich's first "green high-rise" is to be built in Arabellapark. On the site of a former post office, a 16-story residential and commercial building with a green facade is planned to the east of the Hypo high-rise. The "green high-rise" is intended to improve the microclimate and will be made available to Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences as a pilot project for research purposes.