Seele/BMW

Coolest staircase I have ever seen

Actual steps on the stairwell

Hot bent glass

This is one of the only tempering machines that can work with massive glass pieces up to 15 meters

 Massive glass pieces

 BMW WELT

 BMW towers across from the double cone

Double Cone close up

June Thirteenth, 2012 –

Today was another early day, but the train ride was only about one hour compared to yesterdays two-hour ride.  We arrived to Seele this morning around 9:00 and were greeted by very kind people and then another brief power point presentation, which gave us a great deal of information about Seele and what they specifically do.  This company is similar to Gartner the one we visited yesterday, but they manufacture glass for curtain walls or structural glass systems.  Some of the many awesome project they have been a part of were Institute of Peace in Washington D.C., the Apple store on 5^th avenue in NYC, Kings Cross Station in London, UK, and the Strasburg Railway Station.  This was one of the best presentations/tours I have ever been on because it really gave me a great bit of information, and I got to see the things we were talking about and touch them.  The machines they used were very interesting to see and in my opinion the shear size of glass that they can work with is absolutely amazing.  They can work with glass 3.2 meters X 15 meters and they can curve the glass in amazing shapes.  My favorite part of the day was the stairs that they had inside part of the plant.  These stairs were invented by the company, but sold to Apple and so of course Steve Jobs owned the patent to them.  Seele being the genius company they are built a better staircase and got the patent to it. 

As you can tell I really appreciated this opportunity to visit such an awesome company and hope to use them in the future either for business or personal glasswork. 

We left the Seele to head back to Munich because a good few of us wanted to see the BMW Welt.  The museum is right next to the manufacturing plant, but you had to reserve a spot at least 1 month in advance.  The BMW Welt has a pretty awesome and futuristic architectural style to it, which is for the main structure a whirlwind and pending cloud look.