The "Textile School"

The school building along Gábor Áron Street, which overlooks Elisabeta Park in Sfântu Gheorghe, is still known as the "textile school" by most locals, even though it was built as a Reformed girls' secondary school in 1926-1927. The school was designed by the legendary Transylvanian polyhistor Károly Kós on the recommendation of the headmaster of the Székely Mikó College, Vilmos Csutak, in 1924, and the construction was made possible by donations from the county's population. Károly Kós designed several schools during his lifetime, the first of which was the school complex in a part of Budapest called Városmajor in 1910. 

The building, which was converted into a vocational school of textile industry in 1949, was originally intended to be part of a row of buildings that would have spectacularly closed off the main square of the town from the west, facing the present Mihai Viteazul statue, but the impressive town hall was never built, while the block of the girls' secondary school was. The entrance "tower," typical of Károly Kós's buildings, is a prominent feature of the building, playing an important organising role within the asymmetrical composition enclosed by the steep planes of the roof. The building was renovated in 1952, with a few classrooms to the south and a canteen added in 1983. In September 2001, the school was renamed Kós Károly Vocational School, and after the building was returned to the ownership of the Székely Mikó College, it was extensively renovated in 2018-19.