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New educational and sports facility to be built in MS Riem |
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(March 1, 2002) To rise in the eastern part of the district, MS Riem’s new residential area will have a complex housing a number of educational institutions: an elementary school (the second in MS Riem), and centers for the training of social workers, administrators, bank and legal staff. With construction scheduled to commence in 2004 and to be completed in July, 2006, the facility will also be home to a variety of sports facilities, and to community-level groups. The Euro 42.5 million complex is being built by the municipality of Munich, according to the plans submitted by Frank Hausmann and Michael Viktor. Based in Cologne, they beat 440 other teams of architects for the commission. Bavaria’s communities flock to foliate for the Federal Garden Exhibition February 21, 2002 To be held in Munich’s MS Riem district, 2005’s Federal Garden Exhibition promises to be the largest ever held. That’s quite a statement. Staged every five years by one of Germany’s communities, the exhibitions have grown to be the largest of their kind in the world. The next one promises to be even larger—and for a simple reason. It will, for the first time in the Exhibition’s history, include input from surrounding communities. No less than 18 towns in the greater Munich region have formulated plans to participate in the exhibition. In addition to extending the belt of flowers, shrubs and ponds beyond the borders of MS Riem, a number of the communities’ projects will devote themselves to sustainable development—those modes of activity in which the needs of the environment and the imperatives of the economy sustain each other. For the Exhibition, to be held from April 28th to October 9, 2005, the municipality of Munich and participating communities have joined to implement a number of region-wide renaturation projects. Being restored to their original states are the Isar and a number of other local rivers, plus a wide range of sites. These, in turn, will often be bisected by bicycle paths. Now in the process of being extended is greater Munich’s (already
exemplary) grid of such paths. Running through the renatured sites,
this grid will be used for the ‘cycle-thons’ to be staged
in conjunction with the exhibition.The size and scope of the Exhibition
have caused Munich’s municipal parents to hail it ‘as
the fourth in the series of events shaping Munich’s green areas’.
The preceding three events 1789 The creation of the English Garden,
billed as Europe’s largest in-city park, and one of the world’s
best-loved destinations 1972 The Olympic Games, held in and around
the Olympic Park, which was built on renatured land 1983 The International
Garden Exhibition, held in Munich. For further information, please
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