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Sandy Hook Memorial Design in Connecticut
Newtown Commemoration Proposal, CO design by SWA Landscape Architects, USA
June 15, 2021
Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Design in Connecticut
Design: SWA Group
Location: Newtown, Connecticut, USA
Approval for Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Design, Connecticut, USA
Project to take shape under the watchful eyes of two young SWA designers

Renderings courtesy SWA Group
San Francisco, CA (June 15, 2021) ? International landscape architecture, planning, and urban design firm SWA Group announce the approval of their design, ?The Clearing,? which after a five-year process of site selection and development of memorial criteria, was selected unanimously by the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission among 189 international design submissions and with overwhelming support from the families of the victims. The Memorial will be implemented on a donated five-acre site in Newtown, Connecticut.
The groundbreaking of the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial will take place in August 2021. The opening is slated to take place on December 14, 2022, the 10th Anniversary of the tragedy.

The 1.8-acre Memorial has been designed as a place to remember and celebrate the lives that were lost at Sandy Hook Elementary, a tragedy of profound dimensions. How can a place honor these lives, as the Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Commission urged, for the families who grieve the loss of a lo...