Em Setembro de 2016, a United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation (Fundação para o Memorial do Holocausto – Reino Unido), em conjunto com o Department for Communities e o governo local, com a consultoria do Malcolm Reading (consultoria internacional de concursos), lançaram o Concurso Internacional para o United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Competition, em homenagem às vítimas e sobreviventes da perseguição nazista. O Júri tem composição híbrida, formado por representantes da Fundação, da comunidade judaica, jornalistas, gestores públicos, políticos, consultores e um arquiteto. Apresentamos a seguir os 10 finalistas da etapa de pré-qualificação, selecionados entre cerca de 100 propostas. Os finalistas passarão à segunda etapa do concurso, que definirá o vencedor.
Finalista – Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects
With Gustafson Porter + Bowman, Plan A and DHA Designs
Finalista – Allied Works
With Sophie Walker Studio, Arup Lighting, Event London, Lord Cultural Resources, Max Fordham, Michael Hadi Associates, Gardiner & Theobald, Whybrow, Access=Design and Goddard Consulting
Finalista – Anish Kapoor and Zaha Hadid Architects
With Sophie Walker Studio, Arup Lighting, Event London, Lord Cultural Resources, Max Fordham, Michael Hadi Associates, Gardiner & Theobald, Whybrow, Access=Design and Goddard Consulting
Finalista – Caruso St John Architects, Marcus Taylor and Rachel Whiteread
With Vogt Landscape Architects, Arup Lighting and David Bonnett Associates
Finalista – Diamond Schmitt Architects
With Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Martha Schwartz Partners and Arup
Finalista – Foster + Partners and Michal Rovner
With Simon Schama, Avner Shalev, Future\Pace, Local Projects, Samantha Heywood, David Bonnett Associates, Tillotson Design Associates and Whybrow
Finalista – heneghan peng
With Gustafson Porter + Bowman, Event, Sven Anderson, Bartenbach, Arup, Bruce Mau Design, BuroHappold, Mamou-Mani, Turner & Townsend, PFB, Andrew Ingham & Associates and LMNB
Finalista – John McAslan + Partners and MASS Design Group
With Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Hemgård Landscape Design, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Dani Karavan and Arup
With Martha Schwartz Partners, BuroHappold, Lord Cultural Resources, Alan Baxter, Garbers & James and James E. Young