Memorial architecture

The project consists of the extension of the municipal cemetery of Montpellier in order to make it a metropolitan cemetery (multi-confessional) for 31 munici...

Columbarium - The Chamber of Memories winners selected from South Africa, United States & Slovakia!

In times of dramatic change and crisis, designers continue building space for empathy and understanding.

These moving monuments and memorials are fitting tributes

Image 10 of 10 from gallery of Memorial to Enslaved Laborers / Höweler + Yoon Architecture. Diagram

The MIT community felt the loss acutely and turned to J. Meejin Yoon, head of MIT’s architecture department and principal of Höweler + Yoon Architecture, to design a memorial on the site of Collier’s death. Yoon enlisted the help of Carrie Hawley, senior principal at HLB Lighting Design and her Boston-based team, to create a lighting design that would focus on the experience of the place, not the memorial itself as an object.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice by Mass Design Group / copyright Alan Karchmer

Public repositories tend to work best when rendered abstract, allowing flecks of individual remembrance to color in their volumetric outlines.

in korea, atelier KOMA has completed a monument dedicated to the life and work of son yang won – a christian preacher and martyr who was killed in 1950.

Caruso St John's competition entry for the UK memorial to the Holocaust was made in collaboration with the artists Rachel Whiteread and Marcus Taylor, to be a monument and a place of education about the Holocaust.