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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.
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In addition, we post information and images of significant contemporary commemorative architecture projects on this international website.
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”.
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
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 award, design by Gustafson Porter, McConnells, Barron Gould-Texxus and SDE: Princess of Wales Fountain in Hyde Park, England, UK
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 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.
The Monument London: City memorial, England – by architect Christopher Wren: info + photos – The Monument in London, Fish Street Hill architecture, column
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’’.
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
The Sleuk Rith Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia – design by Zaha Hadid Architects – Cambodia Institute and Genocide Memorial Building, Cambodian architecture
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.
Design: John McAslan + Partners. The new Amphitheatre designed by John McAslan + Partners marks the first phase of the practice’s masterplan for the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda. It will be formally inaugurated on Tuesday 8th April 2014.
Any visitor to Sobibór must first and foremost be struck by the stark he contrast between the bucolic beauty of the surroundings, especially enticing in spring and summer, and the symbolic meaning of the grounds where an extermination camp had been located
Joseph A. Natoli Construction Corporation proves stronger than Superstorm Sandy and nears completion of recovery efforts. The New Jersey firm has worked at the international symbol of freedom for twenty years.