Daniel Libeskind Wins National Holocaust Monument Competition

Almost exactly one year ago we were reporting on Daniel Libeskind being selected to design a Holocaust Memorial in Columbus, Ohio. Deja vu all over again, as they say, with last week's news of Libeskind winning a competition for Canada’s National Holocaust Monument. Expected to be complete in fall 2015, the monument will be located across from the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

While the design's angled and canted walls are a signature Libeskind gesture (recalling the Star of David more than his Jewish Museum in Berlin supposedly does), the architect is teaming up with photographer Edward Burtynsky and landscape architect Claude Cormier; the trio is overseen by museum planner Lord Cultural Resources. Libeskind is shaping the memorial's triangular spaces, while Burtynsky is adding large-scale monochromatic photos of Holocaust sites that will be embedded in the concrete walls, and Claude Cormier is designing a forest surrounding the monument that will emerge from a ground covered with pebbles.