Dublin Grounds of Remembrance Ohio landscape

Dublin Grounds of Remembrance Ohio

This is a one-acre park that honours the service of veterans, and revitalizes the City’s heritage settlement. The project eschews a traditional monument in favour of promoting the act of habitual walking and social gathering.

Monument to the Negev Brigade Be’er Sheva

It is located on a small hill east of Be’er Sheva. When we visited it there was a group of soldiers ahead of us that climbed the hill and then sat down in the shade. The feel of the place is stark with sun-bleached brutal concrete twisted and warped, clutching to the dusty top of this barren hill.

Leipzig Monument to Freedom & Unity

Leipzig Monument to Freedom and Unity : Competition Entry

Formally and conceptually, we decided that our intervention here should address surface rather than volume; it should be horizontal rather than vertical. As opposed to the mountain of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal (Battle of the Nations monument), we were the sea that steadily wears down the hard rock and turns it into sand.

Einheitsdenkmal: Berlin freedom & unity monument

Einheitsdenkmal Berlin freedom & unity monument

Germany’s Monument To Freedom And Unity Will Be Based On Designs Created By Sasha Waltz And Milla & Partner. Their concept puts “citizens In Motion” And Emerged As The Favorite In The Final Selection Process.

Dublin Grounds of Remembrance, Ohio

Dublin Grounds of Remembrance in Ohio

The copper Loggia is the formal ceremonial backdrop, panoramic window, and shelter – it is the hub for Veterans and Memorial Day celebrations, and daily provides an intimate experience with its bronze poem wall and seat at the ends

Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial, London

The single granite monolith will be sited in the Darwin Centre garden at the Natural History Museum thanks to a £550,000 grant from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). It is expected to be completed next spring

Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial

Atlantic City Boardwalk

Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial Inc. is sponsoring an international open two-stage design competition for the purpose of realizing an inspiring Memorial to the Holocaust and genocide on a magnificent site dedicated for that purpose by the city of Atlantic City, NJ.

Bomber Command Memorial London, Green Park

Bomber Command Memorial London, Green Park

The council’s planning applications sub committee gave the go ahead for a £3.5m monument to be built at the Piccadilly entrance to Green Park in recognition of the outstanding contribution made by Bomber Command in World War II

Japanese Immigration Memorial Brazil building

Japanese Immigration Memorial Brasil

A symmetrical bridge over a pond metaphorically connects Japan and the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The Japanese immigration memorial evokes cohesion along with continuous movement and interdependence.

The Cenotaph, War Memorial London

Designed by Edwin Lutyens, the permanent structure was built from Portland stone between 1919 and 1920 by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts, replacing Lutyens’ earlier wood-and-plaster cenotaph in the same location.

National Memorial Arboretum, NMA Staffordshire

National Memorial Arboretum, NMA Staffordshire, Alrewas building design by Glenn Howells Architects, English project National Memorial Arboretum, England : NMA Alrewas Planning approval for new Centre of Remembrance at National Memorial Arboretum This design by Glenn Howells Architects has now gained planning. image : Glenn Howells Architects 7 September 2012 National Memorial Arboretum England The … Read more