The Kempinski Hotel Airport München is an integral part of Munich Airport. It is located directly between Terminal 1 and 2. Following a construction period of only 20 months, the hotel opened its doors on May 17, 1994 - two years after the airport itself went into operation. Helmut Jahn has described the architecture of the Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich as airport specific: the hotel is part and parcel of the terminal structure, the service area and the surrounding landscape. A similar concept would never work in a city hotel, he says. As with his other projects, he also views form and function of the Kempinski Hotel in relation to urban environment. Each single unit in his design concepts forms a homogeneous part of the whole.
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