David Adjaye named designer of UK Holocaust memorial

British architect David Adjaye has been named the winner of a competition to create the UK's National Holocaust Memorial in a park near the British houses of parliament in London.

Adjaye Associates is working with Ron Arad Architects on the design of the National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre, which will be located in Victoria Tower Gardens.

The architects have drawn up plans for ground-level memorial with a subterranean learning centre.

The competition was launched by the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation to commemorate the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust, and to all other victims of Nazi persecution.

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