David Adjaye, Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster + Partners and Daniel Libeskind are among the ten shortlisted teams competing to design the UK's National Holocaust Memorial in London. 
The shortlist for the National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre was revealed earlier today ? Holocaust Memorial Day.
The ten contending teams are: British firms Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects; Zaha Hadid Architects with British-Indian artist Anish Kapoor; Caruso St John Architects with British artists Marcus Taylor and Rachel Whiteread; Foster + Partners with Israeli artist Michal Rovner; David Morley Architects and Finnish firm Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects; Haptic Architects and New York-based Studio Libeskind; John McAslan + Partners and US firm MASS Design Group; Irish architects Heneghan Peng; US practice Allied Works; and Canadian studio Diamond Schmitt Architects. The competition launched by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation requested the teams deliver an "emotionally powerful and sensitively designed memorial", which is to be located near British parliament in Victoria Tower Gardens.
Each team has drawn up proposals for a modest memorial above ground and a subterranean learning centre.
"This striking new structure will honour victims and survivors of Nazi persecution, educate future generations about the dangers of where prejudice and hatred can lead and serve as a powerful statement of our values as a nation," said a s...