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Project • By AEV Architectures • Memorials
Mangyeong Church Martyrs’ Memorial
Memories Built Upon Erased Traces
Mangyeong-eup, Gimje, where a typical Korean rural landscape unfolds. Located on a low hill in a country village, where time seems to have long stood still, this project is a memorial to honor Pastor Kim Jong-han and 15 congregants of Mangyeong Church who were sacrificed during the Korean War. A chronic difficulty in commemorating war victims is the complete lack of physical traces, such as personal belongings or records. Therefore, the project set out with the fundamental problem of the "reproduction of memory," because memory is formless and multivalent. The design opts to confront this troubling history through evocative sensory experience within its spaces rather than the reproduction of materialized f... More
Project • By Gustavo Penna Architects Associates - GPAA • Memorials
MEMORIAL OF JAPANESE IMMIGRATION
MUSEUM MONUMENT TO FRIENDSHIP AND ITS METAPHORSThe open-air museum celebrates the friendship between Japan and the state of Minas Gerais and what this relationship was able to build out of concrete and immaterial. The project is a bridge over a lake. The bridge metaphorically connects territories, times, ideas and ideals. The lake is like the sea between nations, and also that of challenges, achievements, times lived. The actions and works become visible through remarkable dates that emerge from the water, and the submerged spaces represent the regions of the unconscious of feeling and memory. The route starts from symbolic Japan planted with cherry trees to Minas dos Ipês-Brancos.
Leonarto Finotti
Celebrating Japan and Minas, c... More
Project • By IOAKIM LOIZAS Architects • Memorials
MENIKO MEMORIAL MONUMENT
We are honored to have been a part of and to present one of our latest projects to be completed; The new Memorial Monument in Meniko Village in remembrance of The Fallen and Missing Persons.
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The memorial was inaugurated by the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Cyprus. More