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Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects, along with Gustafson Porter + Bowman announced their proposal for the design of the first Holocaust Memorial in the United Kingdom. The building will reside in London, by the River Thames near Westminster Palace. It will pay homage to the 6 million victims who were killed during the Holocaust.

The proposal of Adjaye and Arad was unanimously selected to win a competition against important architectural firms like Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, and Studio Libeskind.
Courtesy of Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects
The Memorial will also include a Learning Center that will display the stories and the information about the Holocaust to raise awareness against hatred issues like extremism, Islamophobia, racism, and anti-Semitism. The organizers of the competition claim that it will also “ask questions about the role of society and its institutions in encouraging respect for others and preventing hatred.” Courtesy of Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects
Sir David Adjaye commented that “the complexity of the Holocaust story, including the British context, is a series of layers that have become hidden by time.”
He also added,?Our approach to the project has been to reveal these layers and not let them remain buried under history. To do so, we wanted to create a living place, not just a monument to something of the past. We wanted to or...