The Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich is part of Munich Airport International. It is located between Terminal 1 and 2. Following a construction period of 20 months, the hotel opened on May 17, 1994, two years after the airport went into operation.
The architect of the hotel is German-born Helmut Jahn of the Chicago based Murphy/Jahn Architectural Group.
The hotel's grand plaza is a 24-high meter high and 1400 square meter large atrium hall with a glass roof and decorated with palm trees (18 meters tall) from Florida. Green cubes and grown-over pyramid shapes continue the outer landscape surrounding the airport.