Mexico City honors victims of violence with a striking interactive monument dedicated to remembrance and reflection

The MIT community felt the loss acutely and turned to J. Meejin Yoon, head of MIT’s architecture department and principal of Höweler + Yoon Architecture, to design a memorial on the site of Collier’s death. Yoon enlisted the help of Carrie Hawley, senior principal at HLB Lighting Design and her Boston-based team, to create a lighting design that would focus on the experience of the place, not the memorial itself as an object.

by MASS Design Group for Equal Justice Initiative, winning RIBA International Awards for Excellence 2021

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Image 12 of 29 from gallery of Dr.Vishnuvardhan Memorial Complex / M9 Design Studio. Photograph by Vivek Eadara Photography

The project is to replace the traditional generic cemetery space with highly differentiated urban context, releasing the identical heavy stone-made tombs on the ground to various sensitive crystal-like prism in the sky, the tension between life and death, mortal and immortal, past and future has been reintegrated in increasing densified urban realms.

The project consists of the extension of the municipal cemetery of Montpellier in order to make it a metropolitan cemetery (multi-confessional) for 31 munici...