The Largest Audi Centre Has Officially Been Built In London
Miscellaneous | Dean | October 12, 2009 at 14:52
Six years of construction is finally over. The new 17,650 square meter Audi Centre has been built. The new Audi home will be the largest in the world where it will house three show room floors with place to display 116 cars and two basement levels for a 32-bay workshop.
There will be two top levels with a business, conference and creative complex layout.
The structure was designed by Wilkinson Eyre, who decided to take inspiration from nature, art and science. This is a huge glass and metal structure that has sweeping cures taken from a B2 Stealth aircraft.
Audi’s new Centre has a roof that is made from aluminium sheets that are around 40 meters long with no joins in between. The basement is no joke either, these under ground levels extend to the outer most parts of the premises where they all lay below the water table.
Levels four and five are dedicated to Audi’s quattro models where they house the models from the brands 100-year history.
The official opening is on the 19th of October, and guest invites will include Bryan Ferry, Gordon Ramsay, Dominic Cooper, Jamie and Louise Rednapp, Phil Glenister, Keeley Hawes, Rupert Penry Jones, James Cordon, Ronan Keating, Beverley Knight, Davina McCall, Sir Bobby Charlton and Sir Jackie Stewart.
Audi UK director Jeremy Hicks said: “West London Audi is like nothing we’ve built before in its scope, size and complexity. It’s 100 times more complicated than a normal retail centre – but the sheer scale of this project shows the increasing significance of the Audi brand worldwide.”
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and you thought recession was closing down dealerships?
Haha yeah, but like this was funded years ago