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The New Mercedes Benz MuseumThe schedule was tight, the aim was ambitious: for the new Mercedes-Benz Museum at the gates of the parent plant in Stuttgart-Untertürkh eim, extraordinary planners trod new paths in interdisciplinary cooperation.
With investments amounting up to 150 million Euro, Mercedes Benz took pride in erecting a spectacular new building, the official grand opening of which will take place on 19 May 2006.
More than 100,000 tons of concrete were used in building the Mercedes-Benz Museum, which has a base area of 4,800 square meters and reaches a height 47.5 meters, so that its walls enclose a space of 210,000 cubic meters.
Ceilings measure 33 meters across without a pillar to support them and can carry the weight of ten trucks.
There are neither enclosed rooms nor right angles.
All walls and ceiling, ramps and pillars are arched or twisted and merge with each other in gentle, flowing forms.
It is not even possible to sharply distinguish between horizontal and vertical areas: the so-called twists, components with a double curvature, are the building's most spectacular innovation.
They grow out of the elevator cores as vertical walls and, leaning on the next core, spiral outwards in a light arch.
Behind the bright window bands they are finally received by a gently sloping staircase which links one Collection room with
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