Team Lord of Toronto was announced today as the winner to design the new Canadian National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Canada's capital.
The team's proposal, titled "Landscape of Loss, Memory and Survival", was selected out of six finalists who were invited to present their concepts to a jury of professionals and then to the public during the national design competition.
— bustler.net
Led by co-president of Lord Cultural Resources Gail Dexter-Lord, the Toronto-based team also includes Daniel Libeskind (architect), Edward Burtynsky (artist–photographer), Claude Cormier (landscape architect), and Doris Bergen (subject-matter advisor).
More info about the project on Bustler.
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How sophomoric.
Libeskind is to holocaust museums as Gehry is to Guggenheims.
As if the world needs more of any them ...
Apparently no one can understand the holocaust unless it's filtered through Libeskind's brain? Isn't there something deeply establishment about this?
I mean, at this point if I'm a large entity and I want a stadium I'm going to go to Populous, and if I want a hospital, I'm going to go to Perkins and Will, and if I want a holocaust interpretation, I'm going to go to Libeskind. And doesn't this all just further the homogeneity of what is, or at least used to be, a messily diverse culture full of all kinds of viewpoints?
Also: debree.
Libeskind's Holocaust museum in Berlin is one of my all-time favorite buildings. Hard to tell if this will live up to the Berlin one without knowing what the inside is like.
On the other hand, its nice to see one architect's interpretation of the holocaust, but to do it numerous times is a waste. Would prefer to let other architect's offer their interpretation, and only do it once.
This is like "Best of Libeskind's Holocaust Museum" with corridor to dead end and all. The design with contractual obligations and a fixed narrative all that's left. With right marketing it should generate lots of visitors.
Wait! (subject-matter advisor) ??
NPR had a story this morning about holocaust survivors and how a high percentage of them live in poverty. But by all means, let's spend millions on another monument to remind us all of how these people suffered - never mind their current condition.
Honestly, why are humans so monument-obsessed?!
They are meant to further a particular political agenda and all the behaviors justified by it.
which holocaust? there have been so many lately.
why do they even hold competitions for holocaust museums? just give the project to Liebeskind
Why does Canada need a holocaust museum?
Why does Canada need a holocaust museum?
Why does Canada need a another holocaust museum?
I think vado wins this thread.
it's interesting to note that despite it being labeled a "Libeskind design" the piece reads;
"Led by co-president of Lord Cultural Resources Gail Dexter-Lord, the Toronto-based team also includes Daniel Libeskind..."
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