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.
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.
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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.
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.