Oh My, What A Factory!

Unfortunately I was not able to get out during the week and visit one of the many factories in Buffalo due to working full time and attending school full time. Also tomorrow I will be taking another tour in Buffalo(Blog post for that will be up on Sunday!), so I instead decided to do some research on the BMW factory in Germany!

 

 

 

This Factory is München, Germany, for us Americans that is Munich, Germany. The factory itself definitely did not resemble the icon I drew. I drew more of an old school image. However, there are parts of this factory that do resemble many factories around the area.

 

 

The buildings towards the back resemble the many flat rectangular buildings that I feel run rampant in Western, NY. So many factories around here have the same design, with many random things on the roofs. Those random things on the roofs probably have a purpose, but I have no knowledge of what their purpose is. The factory has many signs of modernization as well though. The first image shows two very modern looking buildings.

 

 

The picture above is of the same factory.....however this image is from 1957. It almost looks unrecognizable. There has clearly been many upgrades and expansions since then. I was unable to find when the plant itself opened, however I did find out that the location is a protected historical site. The tower(which is BMW headquarters), as new as it looks was actually built between 1968 and 1972. The very fancy looking building is actually a museum of sorts, and was built in 2007. The only part that is currently still in the factory business are the rectangular looking buildings behind it. I find it interesting, at least to me, that these buildings do not look any different than the ones in the United States.

I do hope to go to Germany one day, especially since I am in the process of learning the German language. While I am there I will most definitely take a tour of the factory!