Honourable Mention
heneghan peng architects and Sven Anderson

With Gustafson Porter + Bowman, Event, Bartenbach, Arup, Bruce Mau Design, BuroHappold, Mamou-Mani, Turner & Townsend, PFB, Andrew Ingham & Associates and LMNB

heneghan peng architects and Sven Anderson concept render: aerial view of a triangular wedge-shaped memorial set into the lawn of Victoria Tower Gardens, seen past the Palace of Westminster's pinnacles
heneghan peng architects and Sven Anderson concept render: visitors crossing the lawn towards the sunken triangular wedge memorial, its perforated concrete wall catching the light
heneghan peng architects and Sven Anderson concept render: inside the wedge, visitors including a wheelchair user beneath a sloped, pin-pricked concrete ceiling
heneghan peng architects and Sven Anderson concept render: close-up of the triangular perforation pattern in the concrete facade, with a visitor walking through a gap
heneghan peng architects and Sven Anderson concept render: looking up through the wedge's opening towards Victoria Tower, with visitors and children passing through
heneghan peng architects and Sven Anderson concept render: an interior corridor with perforated walls admitting shafts of daylight
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We are designing the Memorial – Learning Centre so that we never forget the Holocaust.

The Memorial is an ear, that connects visitors with the voices and testimonies of those who experienced the Holocaust. Set within the individual voids that occupy the walls of the Memorial, their sonic aggregate becomes the primary material of its sensory construction.

Visitors descend from the Gardens through a series of thresholds and passages, encountering individual voices as they form a collective, of those who speak of past horrors and the grave risk of authoritarianism and barbarism returning today.

Rooted in British soil, these witnesses tell of their refuge and lives in freedom. The Memorial courtyard – the ‘ear’ – is focussed upwards to Victoria Tower, its view reminds the visitor of the democratic promise of Britain’s Parliament, its people and traditions. With the ascent to the Tower comes a unifying sense of purpose in the value of free, tolerant societies and a collective desire to defend its principles.

We build to remember.

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