Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Atlantic City Holocaust Memorial Competition


A few months ago, a colleague of mine from the office and I participated in a design competition for a Holocaust memorial on the Atlantic City boardwalk. It was a long, arduous process, but we both got a lot out of it. It was even longer to hear back the results. But for a solid two months this winter, Blake Krevolin and I worked tirelessly on our submission. Today we found out that of the 700 some submissions from around the world, ours was unfortunately not chosen as a top 12 finalist. The jury had some big guns on it too, Richard Meier and Daniel Liebskind to name a few, so we can't be too disappointed. Here is our final submission. (there's a lot more symbolism to it than the 200 words allowed) but we consciously made no overt symbols referencing the Holocaust.

5 comments:

  1. Nicely done Mike. Is there a link to the winning submission anywhere?

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  2. They haven't been posted anywhere that I know of, but you can check this website for updates.
    www.acbhm.org

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  3. Brilliant! The caged stone idea is very strong and instantly illustrates and symbolizes the pained souls that needlessly suffered.

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  4. Thanks V. glad you gained that immediate insight. It cuts deeper than that, but that was definitely part of it. Kind of based also on the Jewish funerary tradition of laying stones at grave sites, and alludes to the wailing wall in Jerusalem. A place for people to grieve and place prayers. I can talk for a few hours about it.

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  5. I also participated in the competition. Was a great design challenge and experience!
    i was not impressed with most of the finalists, and felt that the jury did not select based on their initial criteria. I thought most of the final design were loaded with jewish holocaust imagery, not exactly universal as they said they wanted.

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