Statue of Liberty Museum Competition, New York

The Statue of Liberty sculpture

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.

new Frank Gehry Eisenhower Memorial design

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

Memorial and Learning Centre on Utøya

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

Bing'an Red Memorial

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

Guizhou Concrete Memorial

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

Derzhprom Building Kharkiv

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”.

July 22 Memorial Sites: Utøya + Oslo, Norway

Utøya Memory Wound memorial design by Jonas Dahlberg

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

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

Memorial to Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama

Memorial to Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama

Architects: MASS Design Group – The Equal Justice Initiative unveiled design for the Memorial to Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. The building is intended to acknowledge victims of lynching throughout American history.

The Weight of Sacrifice Memorial Washington, D.C.

Weight-of-Sacrifice-WWI-Memorial

The U.S. World War I Centennial Commission selects a design titled “The Weight of Sacrifice” for the National World War I Memorial by Joseph Weishaar, a graduate of the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas.

Memorial at Utøya, Norway: July 22

Memorial at Utøya Norway

The construction of the memorial was designed to allow for a collaborative construction open to volunteers, the parents of the victims and former members of the youth labour party (AUF-veterans), owner of the island – following a Norwegian tradition called ‘‘Dugnad’’.

Canadian Memorial to the Victims of Communism

Canadian Memorial to the Victims of Communism

The future National Memorial to Victims of Communism will be prominently located on Confederation Boulevard (Wellington Street) beside the Supreme Court of Canada and Library and Archives Canada, with views toward the Peace Tower and other key federal institutions

National Holocaust Monument in Canada

National Holocaust Monument in Canada - Canadian Memorial

Design: Studio Daniel Libeskind. The building, by this world-famous architect of Polish Jewish descent, is designed to honour and commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and recognize Canadian survivors. The Monument will be located within the historic LeBreton Flats in Ottawa, symbolically located across from the Canadian War Museum.