ADAC-Zentrale

The ADAC Headquarters (German: ADAC-Zentrale) is a high-rise office building in the Sendling-Westpark district of Munich, Germany. Built between 2006 and 2011, the tower stands at 93 m (305 ft) tall with 23 floors and is the current 7th tallest building in Munich.

In 2001, the ADAC decided to build a new headquarters in Munich. In 2003, ADAC President Peter Meyer presented initial plans, which led to a restricted implementation competition, to which nine architectural firms were invited. The jury included architects Stephan Braunfels, Jörg Homeier, Ulrike Lauber, Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Albert Speer and Hadi Teherani, who selected five of the submitted designs, from which the winner was chosen on 23 March 2004. In addition to first prize for the design by Sauerbruch Hutton, two third prizes went to the Munich firms Goetz and Hootz and Allmann Sattler Wappner. The competition designs by Schleburg from Rosenheim and Hentrich-Petschnigg & Partner from Düsseldorf were purchased. The plan envisaged that the headquarters would be handed over ready for occupancy by 2008 at the latest.

After the ADAC initially commissioned Sauerbruch Hutton to carry out the design work in May 2005 – as part of a general planning team led by a third party – the ADAC parted ways with the general planning team in November of the same year and Sauerbruch Hutton took over its role. The design work was completed by September 2006, and the general contractor tender was finally completed in May 2007. The approaches, in conjunction with the incoming offers, resulted in costs being overrun compared to the original approaches, as a result of which the ADAC again changed the project management. The tensions that then arose between the ADAC and the general planning team ultimately led to Sauerbruch Hutton terminating the contract in September 2009. By this time, according to the company itself, 90% of the planning had been drawn up and was subsequently largely implemented in this form. The construction costs had risen from the originally planned 230 to around 320 million euros.

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