One step closer to a new music building in Lucerne
The Concordat Council of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, which represents the six cantons of Central Switzerland, has given the go-ahead for the planned new building project for the Department of Music. The second part of the Department of Design & Art will also move to Emmenbrücke in 2019.
The building permit from the municipality of Kriens for the new music building has been in place since spring 2016. Now that the invitations to tender have been issued and around two thirds of the bids have been received, the Concordat Council has also given the go-ahead for the construction in Kriens in the immediate vicinity of the Südpol. The ground-breaking ceremony is due to take place in November 2016 and construction will take around 2.5 years.
Until summer 2016, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts was spread across 24 locations. In 2019, there will only be half as many. Only recently, around two thirds of the students and staff of the Department of Design & Art moved from five different locations to Viscosistadt in Emmenbrücke.
In a second stage, the last part of the Department of Design & Art in Emmenbrücke will also be located on the Viscosistadt site, in the building that Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts is renting from Viscosistadt AG. Around 850 students and 140 employees will study, teach and conduct research here in 2019.
