Ethar – Honoring Generosity in Dubai, UAE
OMA and Inside Outside have collaborated on a design for Ethar – Honoring Generosity, a field of columns engraved with stories from Arabic scholars, scientists and thinkers.
Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Design
Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Design, Connecticut, design by SWA Landscape Architects – ‘The Clearing’ proposal was selected after an almost year-long design competition. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred in 2012 when a 20-year-old fatally shot 20 children and six adults.
Mortuary Chapel for Soriano-Manzanet Family
This vault was designed by architects Fernando Vegas and Camilla Mileto. It was created as a tribute both to the region’s rich ceramic-making tradition and to the characteristic tile vault technique, historically widespread throughout the East of Spain.
British Army Flying Memorial, UK Museum
Commemorating all those who have died in the service of British Army flying from before the First World War to the present day, the recently completed memorial at the Museum of Army Flying at Middle Wallop will be a focal point for commemorations this Remembrance Day.
Statue of Liberty Museum Building, New York
Topping off for new $70 m free-standing 20,000-sqft museum building. It is due to accommodate far more people than the current exhibition space. It will be constructed of glass, granite, and concrete–materials inspired by the waterfront.
Memorial of Kazakhstan in Astana Design
The Memorial complex should not be just a symbol of past times like a grandiose statue but more like a modern monument fit for the XXI century which would additionally enrich and animate the society.
National Holocaust Memorial Competition, London
Watch a stellar list of 10 design teams make their presentations! Free, public event on Sunday 17 September. Shortlisted designs for architecture competition on display at V&A. Ten world-class architects teams vying for new National Holocaust Memorial next to UK Parliament.
Albert Memorial Architecture – London Hyde Park
Unveiled in 1872, The Albert Memorial commemorates the death of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s husband, who died of typhoid fever at the age of 42.
National Desert Storm Veterans War Memorial
President Donald Trump approves a public memorial commemorating the Gulf War’s Operation Desert Storm and Operation Desert Shield in Area I, near the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Statue of Liberty Museum Competition, New York
Architecture competition winners news – this design contest received 268 registrations from all around the world. It demanded a stimulating and exciting approach towards the design of a building on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.
Eisenhower Memorial Washington, D.C.
Eisenhower Memorial design by Frank Gehry and AECOM – new renderings released: the memorial’s key element, a 440-foot-long woven-metal tapestry, remains. But the subject of the tapestry has shifted.
Memorial and Learning Centre on Utøya, Norway
Design: Blakstad Haffner Arkitekter. The architects’ ambition was to reflect and strengthen values of community, solidarity, diversity and democracy, both through form and function by establishing a small village.
Bing’an Red Memorial Guizhou
Architects: West-line studio. The Red Army Memorial Museum is situated in the rural Bing’an Warf, a shoal in the middle of the Chishui river, on the border between the regions of Guizhou and Sichuan, in South-West China.
Concrete Memorial Guizhou Landscape
Architects: West-line studio. The Huangpi Dong combat site, located in Tiantai Town, not far from Chishui City. This area is a well known “red tourism” spot in south-west China.
Derzhprom Building Kharkiv Monument Competition
Controversy from an architecture competition the Commemorative Monument for Freedom Square, in front of the Derzhprom Building: “Incompetence of the local authorities puts Europe’s first skyscraper complex in danger”.
The Ring of Remembrance Memorial Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
Design: Agence d’architecture Philippe Prost. This striking memorial near Arras 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.
July 22 Memorial Sites: Utøya + Oslo, Norway
Utøya ‘Memory Wound’ memorial design by Jonas Dahlberg abandoned? Norwegian government offers to replace controversial Utøya memorial to appease local residents. The memorial to commemorate the massacre on the island in 2011 has proved divisive
Holocaust Memorial International Design Competition UK
Architecture competition for a Holocaust Memorial and possible below-ground Learning Centre. To be located beside the UK Parliament building in the Westminster UNESCO World Heritage Site buffer zone.
Princess Diana Fountain, London Memorial
Princess Diana Fountain, London memorial award, design by Gustafson Porter, McConnells, Barron Gould-Texxus and SDE: Princess of Wales Fountain in Hyde Park, England, UK
