Daniel Libeskind's architecture firm has finished work on the National Holocaust Monument in the Canadian capital, formed from tall concrete walls laid out like a warped Star of David.
The country's first monument dedicated to the Holocaust officially opened in Ottawa on 27 September 2017. It honours the millions of Jews murdered under the Nazi regime, and acknowledges the survivors who fled to Canada and settled there.
"This monument not only creates a very important public space for the remembrance of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, but it also serves as a constant reminder that today's world is threatened by anti-Semitism, racism and bigotry," said Libeskind.

The 0.8-acre site comprises six volumes that together form a diagonally stretched version of the Star of David ? a prominent emblem of Judaism, which Jews were forced to wear as badges to identify themselves to the Nazis. The tallest of the volumes, known as the Sky Void, is enclosed on its three sides by four-metre-high walls, save a small gap for entering. This space houses the Flame of Remembrance, and frames a view of the sky.
From a central congregation space, a thin staircase cuts through an inclined wall and leads to an upper terrace facing the Canadian parliament buildings.

Painted onto the concrete walls are detailed versions of Burtynsky's large-scale photographs of Holocaust sites, including death camps and killing fields.
"These evocative murals aim to transport the visitor and...