Holocaust Memorial International Design Competition Shortlist, London Learning Centre Architecture Contest
National Holocaust Memorial Competition Shortlist
NHM: National Monument Design Contest at Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK
24 Oct 2017
Winner of National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in London
Winning Design: Adjaye Associates / Ron Arad Architects / Gustafson Porter + Bowman
image © Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects
National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in London
7 Sep 2017
UK Holocaust Memorial Site Proposals Exhibition
There is a free, public component to the presentations for the UK Holocaust Memorial contest:
Date: Sunday 17 September
Venue: Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, West London
The presentations will run from 10:10 – 16:30 and each of the ten teams will present for 25 minutes. The running order will be alphabetical.
This is a great opportunity for people in London to watch a stellar list of 10 design teams make their presentations!
2 Aug 2017
UK Holocaust Memorial Shortlisted Designs on display at the V & A
UK Holocaust Memorial Site Proposals Exhibition
The 10 shortlisted designs for the UK’s new Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre, to be built in the heart of Westminster, have been exhibited across the UK, in Edinburgh, Cardiff and are now on display in London at the V&A until 22 August 2017.
The ten shortlisted designs for the new UK National Holocaust Memorial
Video published on 31 Jul 2017:
National Holocaust Memorial Shortlisted Designs Film on YouTube
UK Holocaust Memorial Site Proposals Exhibition
National Holocaust Memorial Shortlisted Designs
The shortlisted design teams – architects & artists:
• Adjaye Associates with designer Ron Arad Associates
• Allied Works with artist Robert Montgomery
• Caruso St John with artist Rachel Whiteread
• Diamond Schmitt Architects with landscape architect Martha Schwartz Partners
• Foster + Partners with artist Michal Rover
• heneghan peng architects with multidisciplinary designers Bruce Mau Design
• John McAslan + Partners with emerging US practice MASS Design Group
• Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects with UK based David Morley Architects
• Studio Libeskind with emerging UK practice Haptic Architects
• Zaha Hadid Architects with artist Anish Kapoor
Submit your feedback on the 10 shortlisted designs at:
Vote for UK Holocaust Memorial Design Proposals
16 Feb 2017
UK Holocaust Memorial Site Controversy
UK Holocaust Memorial Site Questioned in Parliament
Edward Leigh, Conservative MP for Gainsborough, questions the Victoria Tower gardens site for this memorial design contest, reports www.theyworkforyou.com:
“The holocaust is one of the most difficult experiences in our history to commemorate in stone. For its sheer enormity and depravity, it defies adequate description, and transferring this into the built environment is all the more difficult. Architects across the world have attempted to tackle this task — in Israel, Paris, Washington, Ottawa and, perhaps most memorably, in Berlin, with Peter Eisenman’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
It is impossible sufficiently to convey the horrors of this great crime, but we have a duty to not just commemorate but teach future generations about the holocaust. I will detail why Victoria Tower gardens are insufficient for this task, while pointing out that we have a very good solution available close by, at the Imperial War Museum.”
The Victoria Tower gardens site “is completely unsuited to the role”, it is already a “well-trafficked area that suffers from severe congestion. The traffic and access pressure will overwhelm Millbank, where there is no parking, at a location not capable of accommodating such a volume of people and vehicles, especially coaches. We want people to be able to visit a holocaust memorial museum uninhibited. We want crowds to experience this building, and so it is counter-intuitive to site it at a place that already suffers from congestion and does not have the capacity to deal with the number of people we hope will visit.
The abbey and Palace of Westminster are recognised by UNESCO as a world heritage site, and there is some danger, based on UNESCO’s rules and recommendations, that such a large-scale project in Victoria Tower gardens might threaten that designation.”
source: UK Holocaust Memorial Site Controversy – link to the full article
6 Feb 2017
UK Holocaust Memorial Shortlist Opinion
UK Holocaust Memorial International Design Competition Shortlisted Entries
Rowan Moore in The Observer questions this competition with a ‘right time, wrong place?’ headline
He says a “muddled brief” hasn’t made it easy for the architects and designers who entered.
Ten shortlisted designs for the memorial were made public by some of the biggest names in art and architecture: they “employ many of the tropes of modern memorialising – digging into the ground, mute forms, fractured walls, light descending from above, the gathering of stones to represent lost lives – but there is too little sign in either their briefing or in their design of deep thought about the memorial’s purpose. They don’t examine what it is to make this piece of work here and now.”
Website: National Holocaust Memorial Competition Shortlist Opinion – link to the full article in The Guardian
27 Jan 2017
UK Holocaust Memorial Shortlisted Designs
Images of UK Holocaust Memorial International Design Competition Shortlisted Entries
The designs by the 10 shortlisted teams in the contest to design a £40 m national Holocaust memorial next to the Palace of Westminster have gone on public display.
The UK’s National Holocaust Memorial and accompanying Learning Centre will stand in the shadow of Parliament, at the very heart of our democracy, in Victoria Tower Gardens. 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.
National Holocaust Memorial Shortlisted Designs
The shortlisted design teams – architects & artists:
• Adjaye Associates with designer Ron Arad Associates
• Allied Works with artist Robert Montgomery
• Caruso St John with artist Rachel Whiteread
• Diamond Schmitt Architects with landscape architect Martha Schwartz Partners
• Foster + Partners with artist Michal Rover
• heneghan peng architects with multidisciplinary designers Bruce Mau Design
• John McAslan + Partners with emerging US practice MASS Design Group
• Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects with UK based David Morley Architects
• Studio Libeskind with emerging UK practice Haptic Architects
• Zaha Hadid Architects with artist Anish Kapoor
UK Holocaust Memorial Shortlisted Designs
18 Nov 2016
Holocaust Memorial International Design Competition Shortlist
Holocaust Memorial International Design Competition Shortlist
Ten world-class teams compete to design new National Holocaust Memorial next to UK Parliament
Communities Secretary, Sajid Javid MP and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to join independent jury to decide winning design
The Government is today (November 18, 2016) announcing the ten world-class teams that have been selected from almost 100 entries to create designs for the striking new National Memorial to the Holocaust being built next to Parliament. They will be judged by a high-profile independent jury of figures in British culture, architecture and religion, including Communities Secretary, Sajid Javid, Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, and broadcaster, Natasha Kaplinsky.
Victoria Tower Gardens and Parliament from the Thames:
Photos © Malcolm Reading Consultants / Emily Whitfield-Wicks
The shortlisted design teams include some of the most internationally renowned architects and artists working together, as well as exciting new talents.
• Adjaye Associates (UK) with designer Ron Arad Associates
• Allied Works (US) with artist Robert Montgomery
• Caruso St John (UK) with artist Rachel Whiteread
• Diamond Schmitt Architects (CA) with landscape architect Martha Schwartz Partners
• Foster + Partners (UK) with artist Michal Rovner
• heneghan peng architects (IE) with multidisciplinary designers Bruce Mau Design
• John McAslan + Partners (UK) with emerging US practice MASS Design Group
• Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects (FI) with UK based David Morley Architects
• Studio Libeskind (US) with emerging UK practice Haptic Architects
• Zaha Hadid Architects (UK) with artist Anish Kapoor
After a period of public consultation, seeking views from all communities across the UK, the winning team will be selected by an independent jury chaired by Sir Peter Bazalgette.
Aerial view of Victoria Tower Gardens:
Jury members include:
• Sir Peter Bazalgette (Jury Chair), Chair, United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation and Chair, ITV Board
• Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom
• Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
• Rt Hon Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
• Ben Helfgott MBE, Holocaust Survivor, Honorary President, ’45 Aid Society and President, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
• Sally Osman, Director of Royal Communications
• Loyd Grossman CBE, Chair of Royal Parks
• Alice M Greenwald, Director, National September 11 Memorial and Museum
• Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE, Journalist
• Baroness Kidron OBE, Film director and crossbench peer
• Dame Julia Peyton-Jones, Former Director of the Serpentine Galleries
• Paul Williams OBE, Director, Stanton Williams Architects
• Charlotte Cohen, Prime Minister’s Holocaust Youth Commissioner
• Natasha Kaplinsky, Broadcaster, Natasha recently recorded the testimony of over 100 Holocaust survivors and camp liberators.
Competition organiser, Malcolm Reading will advise the jury.
The international design competition, announced by Prime Minister Theresa May in September, attracted almost 100 entries from 26 countries. The ten shortlisted teams are now invited to submit designs for a striking new National Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens, including a possible below ground Learning Centre, which will be taken forward subject to technical, financial, planning and other constraints.
Victoria Tower Gardens and Parliament from the south bank of the River Thames:
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Sajid Javid said:
“I am delighted that such an impressive line-up of the world’s best architects, artists and designers are getting involved and helping create our new National Memorial to the Holocaust.
“It will stand as a permanent reminder of where prejudice and hatred can lead and it will show our commitment to the fight against anti-Semitism, in all its forms.”
Aerial of Westminster from Victoria Tower:
photograph © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks
The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said:
“My first public engagement as Mayor was at the Yom HaShoah commemorations in London where I had the incredible honour of meeting and hearing from Jewish survivors and refugees who went through unimaginable horrors in the Holocaust. This experience reminds me once again why we must never forget these atrocities. I’m proud to support plans to create a National Memorial of the Holocaust in the heart of London.
“I look forward to joining the jury to choose a landmark to pay a fitting tribute to the six million Jewish lives lost in what was one of the darkest hours for humanity.”
Victoria Tower Gardens London:
Chair of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation Sir Peter Bazalgette said:
“These teams are challenged with creating a vision for the Memorial which sensitively reflects the loss of life and humanity during the Holocaust. But it must also speak to everyone, with an unwavering commitment against all hatred and intolerance. The design will inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to commemorate and learn.”
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said:
“The new National Memorial to the Holocaust will be an enduring symbol of the UK’s absolute commitment to Holocaust education and to challenge hatred wherever we find it. The quality of the shortlisted design teams leaves me in no doubt that the eventual winner will rise to the tremendous responsibility of appropriately capturing these commitments.”
An exhibition of the finalists’ concept designs will be held in central London and locations around the UK from January 2017. They will also be available to view online ensuring that people from all backgrounds and all parts of the country have the opportunity to offer their comments. The jury will decide on the winning design team, which will be announced later in the spring.
View of the Palace of Westminster from Victoria Tower Gardens, by day:
photograph © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks
This stage in the competition marks the next step in creating a new national landmark in the heart of the UK’s democracy, demonstrating a commitment to honouring the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, providing a place for quiet reflection as well as a focal point for national commemorations.
The proposed Learning Centre will give visitors an immediate opportunity to learn more, contextualising the Memorial, grounding it in historical fact as events fade from living memory and inspiring future generations to respect and embrace difference in the fight against hatred and prejudice.
It will also contain recordings of testimony from British Holocaust Survivors and Camp liberators, including unheard stories recently recorded as part of the Government’s initiative to ensure survivors who have never spoken out before have the opportunity to record their memories for posterity. The Centre will signpost visitors to the many further Holocaust educational resources that are available across the United Kingdom.
The competition is organised by the London-based international design competition consultancy, Malcolm Reading Consultants.
To follow the project, please visit the competition website, http://competitions.malcolmreading.co.uk/holocaustmemorial/
Aerial of Victoria Tower Gardens from Victoria Tower:
photograph © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks
Holocaust Memorial International Design Teams
Holocaust Memorial International Design Competition Shortlisted Design Teams
The full design teams are as follows:
• Adjaye Associates (UK) with Ron Arad Associates, Gustafson Porter, DHA, All Clear, Accept & Proceed, Abigail Morris, and Jonathan Safran Foer
Adjaye/Associates
• Allied Works (US) with Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Robert Montgomery, OLIN, and Lisa Strausfeld
Allied Works Architecture
• Caruso St John (UK) with Rachel Whiteread, Marcus Taylor, Vogt Landscape Architects, Arup Lighting Design, and David Bonnett Associates
Caruso St John
• Diamond Schmitt Architects (CA) with Martha Schwartz Partners, and Ralph Appelbaum Associates
Diamond Schmitt Architects
• Foster + Partners (UK) with Michal Rovner and Future\Pace, Local Projects, Avner Shalev, Simon Schama, Samantha Heywood, Tillotson Design Associates, David Bonnett Associates, and Whybrow
Foster + Partners
• heneghan peng architects (IE) with Gustafson Porter, Event, Bruce Mau Design, BuroHappold Engineering, Bartenbach, and Duncan Boddy (PFB Construction)
Heneghan Peng
• John McAslan + Partners (UK) with MASS Design Group, DP9, London Communications Agency, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Local Projects, Modus Operandi, JencksSquared, and Lily Jencks Studio
John McAslan + Partners
• Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects (FI) with David Morley Architects, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, and Hemgård Landscape Design
http://www.ark-l-m.fi/
• Studio Libeskind (US) with Haptic Architects, Martha Schwartz Partners, Lord Cultural Resources, BuroHappold Engineering, Alan Baxter, Garbers & James, and James E. Young
Daniel Libeskind
• Zaha Hadid Architects (UK) with Anish Kapoor, Event London, Sophie Walker Studio, Lord Cultural Resources, Arup Lighting Design, Whybrow, and Access=Design
Zaha Hadid
Holocaust Memorial International Design Competition images / information from Malcolm Reading Consultants (MRC)
14 Sep 2016
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Holocaust Memorial International Design Competition
Holocaust Memorial International Design Competition
View of the Palace of Westminster from Victoria Tower Gardens:
photograph © Malcolm Reading Consultants/Emily Whitfield-Wicks
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