As I learnt yesterday, Munich is in the heart of Bavaria... which is a kind of überdeutsche Germany. This is where the stereotypical lederhosen come from and even today apparently, walking around with a dead squirrel tail extending from your William Tell style hat does not solicit the merest giggle.So... in a town where you could miss rush hour if you blinked, and shopping on Sunday is considered devil-worship, it's a little surprising to find that many are things are enviably modern and well-designed. The Alianz Arena is Munich's sports stadium and it's enormous, clever and approachable in the way of a giant marshmallow.
The exterior is made of cushions of dry air which can be individually illuminated (but they aren't because it tends to distract drivers on the adjacent autobahn). Inside it's all German engineering with broad concrete passages and masses of steel scaffolding. Check out the pictures here.
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