Munich’s new urban district of Messestadt Riem, built on the site of the old airport, has at its heart a striking contrast – the white concrete cube of a new church complex located directly opposite a colourful, all-glass shopping centre. The church complex is oriented almost entirely inwards, to a network of buildings divided up by courtyards. A free-standing bell tower marks the entrance to the complex, which contains two churches – for the Catholic and Protestant communities. Inside the complex a microcosm opens up, in the warm colours of fair-faced brickwork and untreated cedar wood. Each church has a distinctive grid-pattern wooden roof frame. In the Roman Catholic church of St Florian, glass artworks enhance the four end walls of the cross-shaped ground plan. The altar island is conceived as a monolithic sculpture, emphasized further by means daylight falling from a skylight above.