Firm will work with architect David Adjaye on the project
WSP has been added to the team chosen to design the National Holocaust Memorial by the Palace of Westminster, 黑洞社区 has learned.
The engineer will work with architect David Adjaye on the project to be built in Victoria Tower Gardens in Parliament鈥檚 shadow.
Adjaye鈥檚 team, which beat high profile rivals such as Foster & Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects and Daniel Libeskind to the job last October, already includes Tel Aviv-born designer Ron Arad.
The government has pledged to cover the cost of the new memorial which the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation has estimated will have a total project value of 拢50m.
It will be comprised of 23 tall bronze fins, with 22 spaces in between 鈥� each representing one of the countries in which Jewish communities were destroyed in the Holocaust. Each gap is also a pathway down into a large hall that serves as the antechamber for the memorial鈥檚 learning centre, which will have a 鈥渞ing鈥� of 100 testimonials around it.
The project鈥檚 landscape architect Neil Porter has said that the raised design of the memorial would 鈥渟hield鈥� the gardens from the traffic noise of Lambeth Bridge, and create a 鈥渂alcony view鈥� back to parliament.
WSP is also working on the revamp of Buckingham Palace and several of London鈥檚 new crop of tall towers such as Lipton Rogers鈥� 22 Bishopsgate and Chinese developer Greenland鈥檚 67-storey Docklands skyscraper called the Spire.
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