Karl Schwanzer designed the tower, along with the adjacent BMW Museum. It was built from 1968 to 1972, ready for the 1972 Summer Olympics, and inaugurated on May 18, 1973. The article gives the style as modern architecture, with an exterior designed to resemble the four cylinders of a car engine.
The roof is 331 feet (101 m) high, and the footprint is 172 feet (52.3 m) in diameter. Four vertical cylinders hang from a central support tower rather than standing on the ground. The floors were assembled at ground level and then raised during construction. The article states no materials.
It has 22 occupied floors in the text, though only 20 are accounted for, and 780,000 square feet (72,000 m²) of floor area. It was declared a protected historic building in 1999 and extensively renovated from 2004 to 2006. It stands beside Olympiapark, and BMW Welt opened across the road in 2007. The article gives no public access rules.
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