Buildings
German Firm to Build Vienna's Holocaust Memorial
(archrecord.construction.com - 04/05/2006)
By Robert
Such
Stuttgart-based firm Fischer, Naumann
and Partners and artist Kirstin Arndt have won an international
competition to build Vienna's "Memorial for the Deported
Neighbors," to commemorate the suffering of the Jewish
community during the Second World War.
The memorial will be located in a park
that will be part of Sir Norman Foster's redevelopment plan
for the area around the demolished Aspang Railway Station.
The design calls for a 98-foot-long by seven-foot-wide trench
cutting through the park. Engraved in the sunken stainless-steel
walls of the 16-foot-deep trench will be the names of thousands
of deportees. Visitors will wear a path on the ground up to
and around the memorial that FNP partner Martin Naumann says
will have, "poetic value."
In a statement responding to critics
who have argued that the memorial will diminish the value
of names displayed in the Seitenstettengasse Synagogue, Naumann
says: "The fact that we propose to list the names, again,
is not about diminishing the value of any other listing. The
murdered people should be remembered as individuals, not only
by vast numbers."
Completion of the approximately $490,000
memorial is set for 2008, although this could be delayed because
Foster's masterplan is currently on hold.
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