At the Arabellapark: Looking forward to the green skyscraper - it should be ready in a few years

Created: 01/05/2022, 10:22 AM

From: Carmen Ick-Dietl

The “Arabella 26” is to be the first real green high-rise in Munich.

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A green skyscraper for Munich?

A skyscraper, the entire facade of which forms a vertical garden, is being built in Bogenhausen.

Munich - Bogenhausen is looking forward to the start of construction for its community center on Maria-Nindl-Platz in Prinz-Eugen-Park, which is planned for autumn. However, three large trees have to be felled for this, which some Bogenhausen residents * dislike - although a number of trees are being replanted elsewhere on the site. That is why there is now a call for the trees to be moved or for the size and location of the community center to be changed. On the one hand an expensive matter, on the other hand there is a risk of delaying the start of construction. The Greens absolutely want to avoid that. Almost all of the apartments have been occupied, but the construction of the urgently needed facilities has been dragging on for several years. In addition to the cultural center, a family center, a senior citizens' center and a service center as well as a neighborhood meeting place are to move into the community center. Everything should be ready in 2025.

Munich Arabellapark: high-rise with 1200 climbing plants 

For this purpose, the creation of the open spaces with playgrounds and other leisure facilities in the Prinz-Eugen-Park will be completed in summer.

A lot of things are created here that have never been seen before in Munich.

For example the climbing playground Biberburg.

A “knot” through which children between the ages of six and 14 can climb up to a height of five meters and then come back down on a slide.

Everything assembled by experts and tested by TÜV.

There will be a water playground, hammocks, sky swings, a viewing rock with water fountains, a biotope, a sports promenade with a boules field, a parcour and calisthenics facility and boulder walls.

There is also plenty of seating, around eleven meters long wooden benches in the shape of a boomerang.

Total costs: almost 15 million euros.

In 2021 a "bibBox", a mobile self-service library in a very small space, was set up at Rosenkavalierplatz.

With this, the city library is trying to shorten the waiting time for the Bogenhausers for their newly renovated city library in the Arabellapark.

The branch opened in 1988 was no longer up-to-date.

At the same time, the art forum and the adult education center in the building are being rebuilt.

Total costs: over 4.5 million euros.

Bogenhausen: The old Telekom technical building is being demolished

An architectural eye-catcher is being completed right next to the listed towers of the HypoVereinsbank: the HVB Daycare Center at Arabellastraße 10. The new building, designed by architect Oliver Betz, is an upside-down truncated cone. The silver-colored building, reminiscent of a UFO, has to assert itself against the massive hotel giants in the area. A crèche with 36 places for young employees is moving upstairs. The renovation of the low-rise building at the foot of the HVB Tower should also be completed in the second half of 2022.

Preparations for another urban highlight in Arabellapark will start at the end of 2022.

The old Telekom technical building is being demolished and the area is being prepared for the green high-rise “Arabella26”, designed by the Munich architect Aika Schluchtmann.

A 16-storey residential and commercial building is being built here, the entire facade of which forms a vertical garden, so to speak.

Around 1200 climbing plants are supposed to entwine themselves over the 52 meter high solitaire.

Construction will not start until 2023, however.

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