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Volkswagen´s transparent factory in Dresden
The transparent factory
for handcrafted cars in Dresden
Volkswagen, Wolfsburg, December 20, 1998. Volkswagen is planning to build an impressive transparent factory for handcrafted cars at the Straßburger Platz location in Dresden. This facility will create some 800 jobs..
The factory has been designed by Volkswagen in
collaboration with the internationally renowned architects, Henn. The complex will be
light and airy. It will not only contain traditional elements of the buildings constructed
around the site at an earlier date, but will also have a futuristic appeal. Both of these
aspects will be represented in a glass cylinder, in which the cars made in Dresden will be
presented to the world. Volkswagen also plans to offer its customers a world of
experience. For this reason the new transparent production facility will be extended to
include a public forum for events and an art gallery. Volkswagen would like to be able to
present Dresden as a cultural city to the buyers of high quality cars. A logistics centre has been planned for the southeast of Dresden. It will be
connected to both the international rail network and the city tram system, which in turn
will serve the Straßburger Platz. This will equip the new factory with an ecologically
friendly and unproblematic supply line.
A streetcar is loaded with
material. Volkswagen could be ready to start construction in February 1999. The first vehicles
could leave the transparent factory for handcrafted cars as early as the year
2001.
Photos: Volkswagen
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