The Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation (GWOTMF) has selected architecture firms to design the Global War on Terrorism Memorial, which will be built on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
The selected firms are: Marlon Blackwell Architects, BAU_Butzer Architects and Urbanism, James Corner Field Operations, Kengo Kuma and Associates and Rogers Partners Architects + Urban Designers.
The announcement comes after the foundation’s Designer Advisory Board (DAB) reviewed a list of seventeen eligible designers submitted by the foundation’s board of directors. The foundation chose the seventeen candidates for this round after considering 177 candidates compiled in a collaborative process, with input from partners such as Winstanley Architects and AECOM.
“In April, the foundation entered the design phase of the memorial construction process. Therefore, it was time to move toward identifying the designer who will lead a team to create a national place of honor, healing, empowerment, and unity,” says foundation president and CEO Michael “Rod” Rodriguez. “We are confident that each of the remaining candidates is fully capable of bringing their own unique vision to the project, incorporating feedback from Gold Star families and veterans into the design of the memorial and guiding a team of other artists who they will help create this sacred tribute. to american heroes We hope to make a final designer selection by the end of the summer.”
About GWOTMF and the selected architecture firms
Since 1990, Marlon Blackwell Architects has received more than 120 design awards, including the 2016 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture. The Steven L. Anderson Design Center and Vol Walker Hall at the University of Arkansas near its Fayetteville headquarters won the 2018 National American Institute of Architects (AIA) Architecture Honor Award.
BAU_Butzer Architects and Urbanism was founded in 2008 by Hans E. Butzer and his wife, Torrey A. Butzer. The Oklahoma-based company’s award-winning works include the National Native American Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC and the National Memorial in Oklahoma City.
James Corner Field Operations is a landscape architecture and urban design firm based in New York. Landmark projects include the High Line in Manhattan, New York; Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois; and West End Square in Dallas, Texas.
Kengo Kuma founded Kengo Kuma & Associates in 1990, the firm currently has international offices in Paris and Tokyo. The firm’s flagship projects include the Japan National Stadium in Tokyo and the Victoria and Albert Museum in Dundee, Scotland. In 2021, time named Kuma the most influential architect in the world.
Founded in 2013, Rogers Partners Architects + Urban Designers, based in New York and Houston, is a firm of architects, urban designers and landscape architects. The firm’s projects, including the upcoming redesign of the Constitution Gardens portion of the National Mall, have won dozens of notable architecture awards.
Formed in 2015 by veterans, military spouses, and caring Americans, the GWOTMF is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization designated by Congress to lead the effort to plan, fund, and build the National GWOT Memorial on the National Mall in Washington. , DC
