The recently opened House of Memory in Milan was designed by Baukuh, who won the competition to work on the project in 2011Photography:Giovanna Silva

Restrictions and tight budgets often lead to some of the most ingenious design solutions and the new House of Memory (Casa della Memoria) in Milan is a case in point. Designed by Italian architecture collective Baukuh, the new building in the rapidly transforming Puorta Nuova area is the city's latest archive, exhibition and conference space.

The winning design of an invited competition held in 2011, the House was conceived as the headquarters of five cultural associations aiming to 'preserve the memory of the conquest of freedom and democracy in Italy' - the National Association of Former Deportees (A.N.E.D.), the National Association of Italian Partisans (A.N.P.I.), the National Association of Terrorism's Victims (A.I.VI.TER.), the Association Piazza Fontana 12 December 1969 and the National Institute of Studies on the Italian Resistance Movement (I.N.S.M.L.I.).....Continue Reading

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