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Heliopolis 21 is a multi-awarded architecture practice based in Italy, Germany, and the UK, founded by Gian Luigi Melis and Alessandro Melis, who is also the curator of the Italian National Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale.

Designed by Heliopolis 21, the SR1938 "Polo della Memoria" Institute of the University of Pisa, in collaboration with Diener & Diene r, the Stella Maris Hospital  and the Auditorium of Sant’Anna, inaugurated by the president of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, are acknowledged both in scholar publications and in popular magazines as examples of excellence in sustainable design.

The SR1938 Building takes its name from the park of San Rossore (Pisa), the Italian royal residence where the racial laws were signed, in 1938. The building, in addition to being a university, is therefore also a memorial in memory of the victims of Shoa.

The ceremony for the honoris causa degree to Liliana Segre by the University of Pisa was held in the SR1938 Building, during the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (2021),. On the occasion, Liliana Segre, speaking of the building, said: "today this 'polo'  looks to the future, excellence in architecture and environmental protection. It houses the department of civilisation and forms of knowledge, a name that indicates the link between the level of civilisation and the structures of study, education and teaching, the only true barriers to the reappearance, today as in the past, of the most dangerous manifestations of ignorance, intolerance, indifference which expose our civilisation and our society at the worst risks".