Adjaye Associates, Ron Arad Architects and Gustafson Porter + Bowman have been selected to design the UK?s new Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. Following an international competition, the team has been unanimously selected by a Jury including the UK?s Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, the Mayor of London, the Chief Rabbi as well as first and second generation Holocaust survivors and architecture and design experts.
The winning Adjaye Associates design
The Jury praised the winning team?s proposal to create ?a living place, not just a monument to something of the past? and the ?desire to create an immersive journey for the visitor who would enter a Memorial embedded in the land.?
The Holocaust Memorial has been conceived following in depth research into the site, Victoria Tower Gardens, next to the Houses of Parliament. Describing the location as a ?park of Britain?s conscience? the design team have linked the new Memorial and Learning Centre with the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, the Burghers of Calais and the Buxton Memorial: all four recognising injustice and the need to oppose it.
Alongside the winning winning Adjaye Associates submission, Canada’s Diamond Schmitt Architects received an honourable mention for its design of the United Kingdom?s Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. The jury cited the Diamond Schmitt design for creating a journey from light to dark to light, where the memorial created a void in the Gardens intended to...