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Memorial
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Songs of Activism and Solidarity Adorn New York City’s AIDS Memorial
Artist Steven Evans’s LED installation sings out titles of anthems that defined queer liberation before and following the AIDS epidemic.
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Memorials Are for the Living
Eddie Blake and Gian Luca Amadei question how architecture can help us contemplate loss and memory in the age of COVID-19.
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This Concept for a COVID-19 Memorial Builds a Stronger Community
Yale architecture students tackle the challenge of designing a memorial to victims of the pandemic in New Haven.
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At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, MASS Design Group Proposes a Memorial to Victims of Gun Violence
On Saturday, senior associate Jha D. Williams talked through the project's themes at the Chicago Architecture Center.
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National Veterans Memorial and Museum to Open in Columbus, Ohio
Designed by Allied Works, OLIN, and Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the museum tells the stories of American veterans across all the armed services.
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National Memorial for Peace and Justice Opens in Montgomery, Alabama
The memorial features a large structure—designed with the assistance of MASS Design Group—dedicated to victims of lynchings in the American South.
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St. Louis Arch Renovations Aim to Revitalize an Eero Saarinen and Dan Kiley Landscape
The St. Louis Arch redesign was 70 years in the making; now Eero Saarinen and Dan Kiley's project will make a fresh debut this July.
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Daniel Libeskind–Designed Holocaust Monument Opens in Ottawa
The Star of David–shaped steel and concrete memorial, located just west of downtown Ottawa, was ten years in the making.
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The Unmet Promise of “Never Forget”: Michael Murphy on Memorials in the 21st Century
In the wake of recent waves of intolerance and anti-semitism around the world, MASS Design Group's Michael Murphy meditates on the ways memorials of the past have failed us—and how we can move forward.
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Memorial to Slice Island-Site of the Utøya Massacre in Half
The artist Jonas Dahlberg will drive a 3.5-meter void straight through a small Norwegian island, site of a ghastly massacre.
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The Contentious Ten-Year Saga of Michael Arad’s 9/11 Memorial Design
New book examines the work and character of those who shape our built environment
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Visiting the 9/11 Memorial in Lower Manhattan
All photos by Paul Clemence Last weekend I went to check out the new World Trade Center; I’ve been following its rise from my window in Brooklyn. I was prepared to deal with hoards of sightseers and extra-tight securit
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The Eisenhower Memorial Incites a Gehry Resistance
The architect finds himself under attack by right-wing culture warriors.
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The Not-So-Hidden Agenda Against Gehry’s DC Memorial
Images courtesy Eisenhower Memorial Commission This morning I received a breathless (as in, accusatory! alarming!) press release from an organization called the National Civic Art Society. They’re the Washington-based
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Krier: Gehry’s Eisenhower Memorial Is an “Anti-Monument”
Early design of the memorial Memorial design images courtesy Gehry Partners The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washing
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This Westchester Memorial Is Everything the WTC, Regrettably, Won’t Be
Quick: think of a good contemporary memorial. No, not that one we’ve all heard quite enough about: Maya Lin’s shrine to the Vietnam War—a wonderful thing, a bolt from the blue, a one-in-a-million shot—a modern de