Kreuzviertel: Brienner Quartier

The Brienner Quartier is one of Munich’s most formal inner-city environments, organized around the neoclassical Brienner Straße. Museums, historic institutions, grand façades and nearby squares give the area an elegant and cultured atmosphere. The institution is not an isolated object: opening hours, deliveries and flows of employees or visitors shape surrounding streets and public spaces throughout the day. Squares, courtyards and pedestrian routes act as the social framework of the area, concentrating encounters that would otherwise disperse across the surrounding city. Opening hours, performances, exhibitions or public events bring changing groups of visitors into the area and create activity beyond the routines of local residents. The principal building or public space also works as an orientation point in the wider city, so its architectural presence influences streets well beyond the immediate site.