David Adjaye forced to alter Holocaust memorial designs

摘要

The backers of David Adjaye's Holocaust memorial have submitted a new planning application after being forced into a redesign, it has emerged. The revisions, details of which have not yet been released, include the design of the entrance pavilion, the entrance courtyard and the landscaping. The basement footprint has also been reduced. The changes follow a round of public consultation on the contested scheme, which would be built on a park beside the Thames and next to the Houses of Parliament. Ron Arad and Adjaye Associates won the project after an international contest, along with landscape practice Gustafson Porter + Bowman. They submitted a planning application in January for a design that already incorporated comments from a previous round of consultation. A campaign against the memorial has been led by architect Barbara Weiss of the Save Victoria Tower Gardens campaign group. Bodies including Icomos - Unesco's International Council on Monuments and Sites - have also objected, saying it would cause "substantial harm" to the green space and to the World Heritage Site.