Hitler’s House Now a Police Station
Austrian authorities have unveiled a design for turning the house where Adolf Hitler was born into a police station. A design by Austrian architects Marte.Marte beat 11 competitors in an interior ministry tender. The refurbishment is expected to be completed around the end of 2022 and will cost about €5m (£4.5m). The yellow corner house in the northern Austrian town of Braunau am Inn where Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 was taken into government control in 2016 and they announced in November that police would use the building. The winning design takes a simple, modernising approach but doesn't tamper with the substance of the original building. The relatively modest three-level building was rented by Austria's interior ministry since 1972 to prevent its misuse, and was sublet to various charitable organizations. It stood empty after a care center for adults with disabilities moved out in 2011.
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