Cultural Centre of the former vocational training school of Chamidie -Islachane

Former Use:	Machine works
New Use:	Cultural cluster
Category:	Culture
Website:	http://www.ppxi.gr/
Reuse Architect:	Owner: Real Estate company of the State. Concession: Ministry of Culture
Construction year(s):	1903 -
Reuse year(s):	2016 -

Description:

In the early 1900s the complex housed the laboratories of the school of vocational training ( ironworks, carpentry et.al.) for orphan children. In the 1920s it housed the machine hall Aksilithioti. Its machinery has been preserved.

Relevant Literature:

1. https://vida-omada.blogspot.com/2018/01/blog-post_43.html
2. http://parallaximag.gr/thessaloniki/chartis-tis-polis/itan-kapote-to-islachane
3. http://parallaximag.gr/thessaloniki/maties-ston-poli/ela-na-deis-to-islachane-apo-mesa
4. http://www.typosthes.gr/gr/politismos/article/145882/islahane-anoixe-kai-pali-pules-to-istoriko-ktirio-tis-thessaloniki-foto/

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