The government has announced the designers who will compete to create the new National Holocaust Memorial.
Ten teams, selected from almost 100 entries from 26 countries, will submit designs for the memorial and learning centre which is to be built next to Parliament.
They will be judged by an independent jury including Communities Secretary Sajid Javid, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, and Holocaust survivor Ben Helfgott, and chaired by Sir Peter Bazalgette, the chair of the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation.
The jury will select the winner next spring after a public consultation seeking views from communities across the UK.
The shortlisted teams, a mix of renowned international architects and artists and new talents, are:
•Adjaye Associates (UK) with designer Ron Arad Associates
•Allied Works (US) with artist Robert Montgomery
•Caruso St John (UK) with artist Rachel Whiteread
•Diamond Schmitt Architects (CA) with landscape architect Martha Schwartz Partners
•Foster + Partners (UK) with artist Michal Rovner
•heneghan peng architects (IE) with multidisciplinary designers Bruce Mau Design
•John McAslan + Partners (UK) with emerging US practice MASS Design Group
•Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects (FI) with UK based David Morley Architects
•Studio Libeskind (US) with emerging UK practice Haptic Architects
•Zaha Hadid Architects (UK) with artist Anish Kapoor
Mr Javid said he was “delighted that such an impressive line-up of the world’s best architects, artists and designers are getting involved and helping create our new National Memorial to the Holocaust.
Rabbi Mirvis said the memorial would be “an enduring symbol of the UK’s absolute commitment to Holocaust education and to challenge hatred wherever we find it.
“The quality of the shortlisted design teams leaves me in no doubt that the eventual winner will rise to the tremendous responsibility of appropriately capturing these commitments.”
An exhibition of the finalists’ concept designs will be held in central London and locations around the UK from January 2017. They will also be available to view online.
The competition is organised by the London-based international design competition consultancy, Malcolm Reading Consultants.
The full list of jury members who will select the winning design:
•Sir Peter Bazalgette (jury chair), chair of the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation and chair of the ITV Board
•Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
•Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government
•Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
•Ben Helfgott, Holocaust Survivor, Honorary President of the 45 Aid Society and president of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
•Sally Osman, director of Royal Communications
•Loyd Grossman, chair of Royal Parks
•Alice M Greenwald, director fo the National September 11 Memorial and Museum
•Lord Finkelstein, journalist
•Baroness Kidron, film director and crossbench peer
•Dame Julia Peyton-Jones, former director of the Serpentine Galleries
•Paul Williams, director of Stanton Williams Architects
•Charlotte Cohen, the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Youth Commissioner
•Natasha Kaplinsky, broadcaster who recently recorded the testimony of over 100 Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.
Competition organiser, Malcolm Reading will advise the jury.
To follow the project, visit the competition website at https://competitions.malcolmreading.co.uk/holocaustmemorial/
