Renovated Thomas Wimmer vocational school centre in Munich to be presented after full refurbishment

The City of Munich has completed the general refurbishment of the municipal Thomas Wimmer vocational school centre at Luisenstraße 9-11. The listed building houses eight vocational schools linked to the construction trades, and has been both renovated and extended.

Munich's head of schools, Florian Kraus, and Iris Lemke, senior building director in the city's Building Department, were scheduled to present the finished school centre on a press tour on 10 September at 10am.

According to the city, the refurbishment and extension underline the importance of construction and craft trades in Munich, the future of the city as a place to do business, and the preservation of its architectural heritage.

The school centre contains 36 workshops, halls and laboratories, 38 classrooms, ten integrated specialist teaching rooms and three technical plant rooms. A new extension houses a youth leisure centre and an assembly room.

Architectural features include a hall with a distinctive sawtooth roof, a stairwell built from glass blocks and the high-ceilinged bricklaying and carpentry hall. Shop-style windows allow passers-by to see into the building. The roof is topped by an artwork commissioned for the building, the "Solomonic Column" by Karin Sander.