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It is all that remains of the industrial history of this working class area. It has become not only a public facility serving the needs of the district and the city, but also a place of memory and of a focus of local renewal, in a district where many former “Job” employees still live. In order to fulfil this dual purpose, the ambition was to offer a well-balanced architectural combination of preservation and extension, along with strong programmatic diversity. Access is via a broad public space to be developed in future as the central feature of the area that runs along the south side. Broad amphitheatre steps lead up to a raised central courtyard from which the rest of the facility radiates. Around the courtyard stand two distinct but associated buildings. Behind them, a reconstructed hall houses the music school, located above the public swimming pool and linked to the concert hall by a walkway spanning the courtyard. The form of the project, which uses parts of some buildings and repeats the dimensions of others, is elementary and its architectural solutions are simple. They tend to unify the different functional components within a coherent whole. The white colour of the entire complex a nod to the “ocean-liner” design of its modernist sections helps create a sense of cool neutrality that is only interrupted by signage echoing the graphic design of the original Job brand logos.