Holocaust denial has festered in UK, says award-winning architect of new £50 million memorial

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Holocaust denial has festered in UK, says award-winning architect of new £50 million memorial

Sir David Adjaye, the award-winning architect, has defended his Holocaust memorial, saying it is needed in London because deniers of the atrocity have “festered” in Britain.

The £50 million structure, designed with Israeli designer Ron Arad and the landscape architects Gustafson Porter + Bowman, has been criticised, particularly over its chosen location next to the Houses of Parliament.

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High Court quashes Adjaye’s holocaust memorial plans

08/04/2022

Architect’s £100m proposals ruled to be in breach of a 1900 legal act protecting listed Victoria Tower Gardens

David Adjaye’s plans for a holocaust memorial outside Parliament have been quashed by the High Court.

Lawyers for the charity London Historic Parks and Gardens Trust successfully argued that the proposals were in breach of a 1900 legal act prohibiting the site from being used for anything other than a public garden.

The decision overturns the government’s approval for the scheme in July last year, a move which itself followed Westminster council’s rejection of the plans in 2019.

The £100m memorial would have occupied a significant portion of the listed Victoria Tower Gardens, which neighbours the Palace of Westminster on the banks of the Thames.

The scheme consisted of an underground education centre dedicated to the six million victims of the Holocaust

The trust’s lawyer Richard Drabble QC said the plans did not comply with the 1900 legal act, which was upheld by high court judge Justice Thornton in a ruling today.

Thornton said the act “imposes an enduring obligation” to retain the land “as a public garden and integral part of the existing Victoria Tower Gardens”.

She added: “Accordingly, the appropriate remedy is to quash the decision, so as to enable further consideration of the implications of the London County Council (Improvements) Act 1900 for the proposed scheme.

The judge ruled that the plans breached a 1900 legal act protecting the park

”Government lawyers argued that there was “no error of law” in process to overturn Westminster council’s refusal.

The trust said in February that the planning permission was “flawed” and described the scheme as the “right idea, wrong place”.

Due to open in 2024, the memorial was intended to be a focus of national remembrance for the six million victims of the holocaust during the Second World War.Adjaye’s proposals consisted of 23 large bronze fins leading into an underground learning centre.

Designed with Ron Arad, the firm won a competition in 2017 beating entrants including John McAslan, Foster & Partners, Studio Libeskind and Zaha Hadid

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[Petalpusher]

The architecture of it suits for a great gay dating spot, like the one in Germany.

https://hyperallergic.com/62106/gays...-marc-adelman/

[Teutone]

Says alot about the west that modern monuments are not about victories, success or motivating ideals.

They are overpriced abstract monuments that manifest guilt and a submissive attitude.

Occidentem delenda est

[rothaer]

Says alot about the west that modern monuments are not about victories, success or motivating ideals.
They are overpriced abstract monuments that manifest guilt and a submissive attitude.

Very well seen. It hits the nail on the head, as is said in German.

Occidentem delenda est

No. Wtf. This is nothing but comfortable defaitism. YOU are the occident.

As long as I do breath, the Occident is not destroyed and there will be a struggle for it not to happen. And what is good: The chances for success are completely irrelevant. It's like an individual with a deadly disease. He can just fight for survival or die. There is no alternative. So this fight is motivated regardless of the success rate.

Btw. this is also how you at all recognize a fighter. He fights also when the odds maybe are against him. All other things are simply opportunism. This is good as well as it guarantees that the main stream will follow us.

But this is not where I see you.

[Teutone]

Very well seen. It hits the nail on the head, as is said in German.



No. Wtf. This is nothing but comfortable defaitism. YOU are the occident.

As long as I do breath, the Occident is not destroyed and there will be a struggle for it not to happen. And what is good: The chances for success are completely irrelevant. It's like an individual with a deadly disease. He can just fight for survival or die. There is no alternative. So this fight is motivated regardless of the success rate.

Btw. this is also how you at all recognize a fighter. He fights also when the odds maybe are against him. All other things are simply opportunism. This is good as well as it guarantees that the main stream will follow us.

But this is not where I see you.

The englightment was a spreading cancer that by the 2020s lead to the patient deserving to be put to sleep because it was missed to remove the cancer before it spreaded.

Deutschland muss auch sterben damit Deutschland wieder leben kann.