Memorial

Libraries are rapidly evolving from spaces of collection to places of connection. The Mitcham Memorial Library Redevelopment embodies this progress with the revitalisation of an aged and constrained library building into a vibrant facility embracing the digital information era and community engagement.   The redevelopment transforms the library into a place for residents, local businesses and the wider community to come together. The existing building was substantially refurbished and extended (doubling in size from 750m2 to almost 1,500m2 to open up new opportunities for community recreation, learning and collaboration. The renovation creates meeting places, quiet zones and training rooms plus dedicated children's, youth and technol... Mais

The design for the new LEED Silver Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center expresses the importance of traveling northward to escape the circumstances of slavery through an integrated site, building, and exhibit design. Tom Holdsworth Photography Conceived as a series of abstracted forms that can be interpreted in many ways—from the farmstead vernacular of the region to stations along the Underground Railroad—the new complex immerses visitors in the story of Tubman’s life. Robert Creamer Photography Joined by a shared entry plaza and terrace, the two structures of the complex, one exhibit and one administrative, frame a view north, expressing the importance of traveling northward to escape the circum... Mais

Javad Eiraji, founder and principal architect of Tehran-based design and creation studio, STUDIO EIRAJI, with his young designer team; Mona Rezaei, Elnaz Tofighi, Golsa Zerangi, Shaghayegh Behrooji and Shima Noori, has finished his latest urban-architectural design for Omran Sq. Memorial of New Sahand Town in East Azerbaijan, Iran. This project has been designed according to the traditional and Islamic geometry and patterns which has been changed to the 3d volume by especial form editions. Paying attention to the culture, creativity and identity are some especial factors in this design. The geometric pattern has been used both in the main volume and basement of the memorial. Creating a live and peaceful space for users is one of the othe... Mais

Embora o investimento no setor habitacional em Teerã seja notavelmente lucrativo, os edifícios que estão sendo construídos para esse fim geralmente carecem de boa qualidade devido às limitações da demanda dos clientes pelo uso máximo da área e às limitações da regulamentação legal.   Enquanto isso, o significado de lar para os iranianos tem conceitos pessoais e sociais profundos que não apenas atendem às suas necessidades de diversidade, privacidade, segurança e introversão, mas também ampliam seu relacionamento com o bairro em que vivem. Portanto, no processo de design do Golestan Apartment (que &eacut... Mais

“Numinous, which is a concept derived from the Latin numen meaning "arousing spiritual or religious emotion; mysterious or awe-inspiring” COVID-19 LIGHT MEMORIAL TRIBUTE FOR NEW YORK CITY ’NUMINOUS FOR THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK’ is a proposed annual light installation consisting of twenty (20+, one light per one thousand deaths) powerful light beacons arrayed across the five boroughs of New York City. They would be positioned in each of the five boroughs and based on the number of deaths per borough. The intention of the project is to create a sacred space imbued with light, that would honor the victims. New York City including the five boroughs, has been devastated by the Covid 19 pandemic. As of May 20, there have... Mais

CORONAVIRUS LIGHT MEMORIAL FOR HART ISLAND, BRONX NYC NUMINOUS is a proposed annual light installation consisting of twelve (12) powerful light beacons arrayed in a 250-yard grid across Hart Island. The intention of the project is to create a sacred space imbued with light, that would honor the interned, both the known and unknown. ”The history of Hart Island is almost mythic, it truly is an island of lost souls. I’ve had a visceral fascination with the island for some time, and I’ve been touched by the enormous tragedy of the place, the burials of the unknown and forgotten, the stacked pine boxes in unmarked graves. I’ve thoughtfully considered what would be the most appropriate way to pay tribute to their lives,... Mais

This competition aimed at selecting the best investment design in the vicinity of the birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin in Żelazowa Wola, Poland. In the conceptual design, Lead Architect Arta Rostami Ravari had to take into account the spatial relationship between Chopin’s birthplace and the surrounding park. It had to specifically adapt to the initial function of the site, i.e. the Park-Memorial created in the 1920s and 1930s to commemorate the great artist.     Its outline dimensions had to organically integrate the landscape without dominating it and still exude the design’s own identity. The topography, architectural context of the interwar Park-Memorial and vegetation creating time-varying compositions were all refer... Mais

The former “Hotel Silber” in Stuttgart was a place of organized Nazi terror and within the political systems before and after a police base.   Originally built as a hotel in the middle of the 19th century, it became an administrative building after the First World War. From 1928 the building housed the police headquarters and subsequently in second world war the headquarters of the Secret State Police Gestapo for Württemberg and Hohenzollern. The building was still used to house parts of police authority until far into the 1980s. Only due to great engagement of a citizens initiative, the decision was made to preserve the building for memorial purpose and create a museum within. In order to enhance the visibility of t... Mais

O novo South Haven Center for Remembrance cria uma nova instalação não-denominacional para a cidade de Edmonton. O objetivo principal do projeto era memorizar momentos no tempo e capturar espacialmente a qualidade das estações através da interação de luz, sombra e escuridão. O projeto apresenta uma torre simbólica de treze metros, que emerge da paisagem da pradaria, que faz referência aos túmulos, monumentos, columbários e à memória latente que eles incorporam. Nossa memória de visitar um cemitério é marcada pelo tempo; a posição do sol, a qualidade da luz e o clima naquele dia em particular. Para alguns... Mais

Striking entrance columns, in carefully crafted CNC routered Vulcan timber screening, set this new community hub apart. Waitohi, Johnsonville’s new library and community hub, supports sustainable city growth and sets a precedent for suburban centres transitioning towards denser ‘town’ centres, consolidating and connecting existing facilities.  Vulcan Screening in Manuka finish has been used extensively to the exterior, including carefully crafted 700x88mm x 6m high entrance columns CNC routered by Makers of Architecture, in a design by celebrated artist Matthew Mcintyre-Wilson. Launched as a design competition by Wellington City Council, the project has delivered:  - A new community heart/ town centre for Joh... Mais

Cientista, filantropo e empresário, a paixão do Dr. K Anji Reddy pela descoberta de drogas e suas contribuições pioneiras para tornar os medicamentos acessíveis são lendárias.   Nascido em Tadepalli, no distrito de Guntur, em Andhra Pradesh, Índia, em uma família de agricultores, ele cresceu vendo seu pai fazer pílulas de ervas que distribuía gratuitamente. Mal ele percebeu o significado profético do que viu.   Depois de trabalhar no estado indiano de medicamentos e produtos farmacêuticos limitados por seis anos, ele estabeleceu os laboratórios do Dr.Reddy em 1984.    A vida do Dr. Reddy não pode ser resumida em... Mais

Viewed from the outside, from its northern and southern elevations, the building of the Mausoleum of Martyrdom of Polish Villages in Michniów brings to mind wooden country cottages arranged one behind the other. This row of symbolic huts has a disturbing form. Individual segments are crashed together and become disintegrated, as after a cataclysm, an earthquake or a fire. The sculptural solid of the Mausoleum, designed by Nizio Design International, is an architectural memorial; a symbol of the pacifications that took place in Michniów and other Polish villages in 1943, during World War II. After nearly 13 years since the project’s inception, on July 12th, 2021 the Mausoleum was officially opened on the 78th anniversary... Mais

The Memorial Hall is dedicated to the deeds of the martyrs who rest in the adjacent cemetery in the city of Chishui, in Guizhou province. The cemetery complex is organized around a main west-east axis; the oblique cut in the southern part of the new building and its main entrance staircase’s orientation highlight this axis, paying respect to the old cemetery complex. Added in 2012, the Memorial Hall is located on the northern side of the main cemetery axis, on a Danxia stone hillside with an elevation difference of about 10 meters. Danxia is the local red stone, typical of the Chishui area, whose color is given by an accumulation of reddish sandstone.               ... Mais

The remodeling of the old city center of Ódena is based on a new structure that organize and define the public space with criteria of simplicity and formal clarity. The project extended a uniform stone paving throughout the whole affected area, in which vehicles and people should have to coexist, giving priority of way to the latter.   A change of paradigm. From road crossing to meeting point. Prior to its remodeling, Ódena’s Plaza Mayor was not in fact a square but simply the center point space where the six main streets that cut across the old city center intersected and converged. This condition, added to the strong slope, between the north and south ends, turned the place into a gibberish of road crossings th... Mais