British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye has designed a memorial in Brixton for Cherry Groce, an innocent black woman shot by London's Metropolitan Police in her own home in 1985.
Adjaye Associates, the practice founded by David Adjaye in 2000, will begin construction on the memorial for Cherry Groce in a few weeks.
Set on in Windrush Square in south London, it will include a planted roof that will shelter public benches. Its triangular-shaped plinth will have seating at different heights carved into all three sides.
A sturdy column on one corner will support another triangular structure, which will overhand the benches from sun and rain and will have sides engraved with Groce's name.

Ensuring her memorial, which was endowed by the Cherry Groce Foundation, would benefit the people of Brixton was imperative to the project, said Adjaye. "The construction of this memorial will speak to restorative justice and will symbolise that what matters to the community, matters to London and the whole world," he said.
"This tragedy went too long in the public realm without acknowledgement and there is now renewed urgency and importance in finally facing this history," he added.

Groce, a black woman, was shot in front of her children in her house in Brixton on 28 September 1985.  She was paralysed by the attack, suffering ill health and needing decades of care from her family before she died of complications from her injuries in 2011.
At the time, the police shooting...