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Memorial building designs

Memorial buildings designs and architects

e-architect select memorial building designs + monument building projects from around the World. Discover memorial architecture projects, news and pictures of the best new commemorative building designs globally.

e-architect select the most interesting commemoration projects globally and post frequently.

Memorials are objects which serve as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something. The object is usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event.

The website features a selection of the best new building designs around the world. Similarly, find details about designers.

In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary commemorative architecture projects on this international website.

New Commonwealth War Graves Memorial, UK

May 19, 2025May 17, 2025 by Adrian Welch
New Commonwealth War Graves Memorial London

New Commonwealth War Graves Memorial London design by Oshinowo Studio, Lagos. For CWGC honouring the fallen from Sierra Leone Carrier Corps

Categories London architecture design Tags Memorial building designs

Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Competition designs news

May 17, 2025May 16, 2025 by Adrian Welch
Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Competition designs Tom Stuart-Smith

Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Competition designs news. UK Government contest for masterplan to honour The Late Queen in London. Architecture contest for architect-led multidisciplinary teams

Categories London architecture design Tags Design competitions news, Memorial building designs

The Memorial Park, Srodmiescie district, Warsaw

March 25, 2025March 25, 2025 by Isabelle Lomholt
The Memorial Park Srodmiescie district Warsaw

Designed by Archiworks studio, The Memorial Park serves as a place of symbolic remembrance for the deceased in Poland. Many of them met tragic fates during the Holocaust

Categories Poland architecture designs Tags Memorial building designs

Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Competition news

May 9, 2025January 15, 2025 by Adrian Welch
Queen Elizabeth II National Memorial Masterplan Design Competition

Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Competition news: UK Government search for a masterplan design to honour The Late Queen. London architecture contest for architect-led multidisciplinary teams

Categories London architecture design Tags Design competitions news, Memorial building designs

Casa Mortuária de Oliveirinha, Aveiro, Portugal

August 6, 2024August 3, 2024 by Adrian Welch
Casa Mortuária de Oliveirinha Aveiro Portugal

The materials of Sónia Lopes da Cruz – Arquitectura’s proposed Casa Mortuária de Oliveirinha in Aveiro, Portugal, construction is done intentionally using simple, sober and contemporary design

Categories Portugal architecture design Tags Memorial building designs

The Ring of Remembrance Memorial Notre-Dame-de-Lorette

August 12, 2023August 12, 2023 by David McManus
Ring of Remembrance memorial

This striking memorial near Arras, France – designed by Agence d’architecture Philippe Prost – commemorates the thousands who died in the region during World War I. Ablain St.-Nazaire French Military Cemetery, is the world’s largest French military cemetery

Categories France architecture design Tags Landscape designs news, Memorial building designs

Global War on Terrorism Memorial Washington, DC

July 14, 2023July 14, 2023 by Adrian Welch
Marlon Blackwell Architect Global War on Terrorism Memorial on National Mall

Global War on Terrorism Memorial Washington, D.C. design by Marlon Blackwell Architect: GWOTMF select the award-winning US architects office to design this structure on the National Mall, from 177 architecture studios!

Categories Washington DC buildings Tags Memorial building designs

Sandy Hook Memorial Design, Connecticut

February 9, 2024January 10, 2023 by Adrian Welch
Sandy Hook Memorial Connecticut landscape

Sandy Hook Memorial Design, Connecticut, by SWA Landscape Architects – opening of ‘The Clearing’ after long process, remembering USA elementary school shooting from 2012

Categories America architecture news Tags Landscape designs news, Memorial building designs

American Memorial Buildings: Architecture

January 20, 2023January 1, 2023 by Adrian Welch
Atlanta Arch, Georgia lake architecture - American Memorial Buildings

American memorial buildings images & news: contemporary United States commemorative building designs – built environment updates: US architectural links – American memorial architecture news, key construction design info + images

Categories America architecture news Tags Memorial building designs

Le Jardin d’Afrique, Zarzis, Tunisia

July 19, 2022July 16, 2022 by Adrian Welch
Le Jardin d'Afrique, Zarzis, Tunisia

Le Jardin d’Afrique on Tunisia’s coast, a memorial to and graveyard for migrants who drowned crossing the Mediterranean, by artist Rachid Koraïchi: architectural components in a walled complex

Categories Tunisia architecture designs Tags Memorial building designs

National Holocaust Memorial in London

July 31, 2024April 14, 2022 by Isabelle Lomholt
National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in London

UK High Court quash permission for Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens, London, designed by Adjaye Associates, Ron Arad Architects & Gustafson Porter + Bowman

Categories London architecture design Tags Memorial building designs

National Memorial, Australian Capital Territory

February 27, 2022February 27, 2022 by Isabelle Lomholt
National Memorial Australian Capital Territory

National Memorial for Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse design collaboration between architecture studios of SPRESSER and Peter Besley in Australian Capital Territory

Categories Australia architecture designs Tags Memorial building designs

World Memorial to the Pandemic, Uruguay

March 23, 2024January 22, 2022 by Adrian Welch
World Memorial to the Pandemic Montevideo, by Gómez Platero Uruguay

World Memorial to the Pandemic, Montevideo coastline, Uruguay design by Gómez Platero, arresting symbol for global unity won in Monuments category at International Architecture Awards

Categories Uruguay architecture designs Tags Memorial building designs

Cold War Veterans Memorial Wisconsin, USA

December 15, 2024October 23, 2021 by Adrian Welch
Cold War Veterans Memorial Wisconsin, USA

The Wall of Resistance, Cold War Veterans Memorial, Wisconsin, USA, design by Collaborative Architecture: absorbing experiential architectural proposal for the Pritzker Foundation

Categories America architecture news Tags Memorial building designs

9/11 Pentagon Memorial Visitor Education Center

September 1, 2023September 13, 2021 by Adrian Welch
9/11 Pentagon Memorial Visitor Education Center

VEC companion visitor center to existing memorial remembering 184 lives lost during tragic events of September 11, 2001, when American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked and crashed into Pentagon

Categories Washington DC buildings Tags Memorial building designs, Visitor centre building

9/11 Memorial Museum New York City

September 13, 2021September 13, 2021 by David McManus
9/11 Memorial Museum New York twisted facade

9/11 Memorial Museum building conceived as global focal point for presenting and preserving the history and memories of the events of 9/11, design by US architects Davis Brody Bond

Categories New York buildings design Tags Memorial building designs, Museum building designs

Memorial at Harvey Milk Plaza

February 27, 2022May 20, 2021 by Adrian Welch
Memorial at Harvey Milk Plaza San Francisco

SWA Group selected to design inclusive memorial at Harvey Milk Plaza in San Francisco, USA, dedicated to visionary LGBTQ+ Civil Rights leader. Bathed in natural light, a wall of windows overlooks the zen-like garden

Categories San Francisco building designs Tags Memorial building designs
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