Opening of the Mannheim Business School Study and Conference Center
In Europe’s second largest baroque castle schneider+schumacher have created a modern study and conference center for Mannheim Business School, which was officially opened today. A decommissioned boiler room and its associated coal cellar dating from the 1950s have been transformed into landscape art at Mannheim’s palace. “Dug into the garden, the new complex and the historic building together form a remarkable new entity, yet in a stylistic idiom that is unequivocally 21st century, proving that the future is firmly rooted in the past”, claims Michael Schumacher who, together with Till Schneider, owns schneider+schumacher.
On an area totalling 1700 m2, a modern and bright campus has emerged with a generous forum, two lecture rooms, a conference room, and ten spaces for group work. On entering the new building, one overlooks the entire lecture room complex, with views extending to the garden – there is nothing reminiscent of a coal cellar here.