In 2010, nine years after the break up of Yugoslavia, the country of Macedonia started a revitalization project focusing on redefining a lost culture through implementation of design and architecture. The newly formed province and its inhabitants felt the need to distance themselves from their socialist past when they were a part of Yugoslavia.In 2010, Skopje 2014 project held a competition for a new parking garage in the “baroque, classic, neo-classic, romantic, and neo-romantic style”. Milan Mijalkovic + PPAG Architects entered and won with a new baroque parking garage design that would help the country project image of their developing culture.