Foreword

Bee Breeders Competition Organisers is pleased to announce the results of the Last Genocide Memorial Competition! This event was run in partnership with the City of Brampton Canada, Brampton Tamil Association (BTA), and Brampton Tamil Seniors Association (BTSA) - two groups calling for legislation to recognise the atrocities that took place in the Sri Lankan Civil War, which lasted from 1983 to 2009, and during which thousands of civilians lost their lives.

The Last Genocide Memorial competition called for a memorial design to honor the victims of genocides throughout history. Participants were tasked with exploring architecture as a tool to communicate these tragedies. The memorial is to educate visitors of the causes of these terrible events, their impact on the wider communities, how they’re still affected to this day, and do so in a sensitive way that shows respect to the many individuals who lost their lives during genocides. 

The memorial is to stand 3.7 meter in diameter and 5.5 meter in height, on a site chosen within Donald M. Gordon Chinguacousy Park located in the City of Brampton, Canada. Winning designs of the Last Genocide Memorial competition will be considered for construction.

Bee Breeders worked with an experienced and well-rounded jury: Kerem Cengiz, Managing Director at LWK + PARTNERS; Bartosz Haduch, an architect, academic teacher, and publicist, who runs run the interdisciplinary collective NArchitekTURA, which combines urban planning with architecture, landscaping and design whose portfolio includes the Great Synagogue Memorial Park in Oswiecim; Kyle Schumann, cofounder of After Architecture and Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, whose work explores how democratized and accessible technologies can empower designers to utilize nontraditional and irregular natural materials; David Telerman, founder of studio Atelier David Telerman. A studio working on various scales with a constant set of preoccupations with geometry, volume, light and the strong belief that each project should express and reveal the inherent truth of the place it occupies; and Joseph Weishaar, AIA a project architect at Smith Dalia Architects, who in 2016 was selected through an international competition submission as the official Designer of Record for the National World War I Memorial in Washington, DC; Françoise N’Thépé runs Paris-based practice FRANÇOISE N’THÉPÉ ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN.

Bee Breeders and its jurors congratulate the winners and thank all participants for their range of submitted thoughtful and intelligent designs.

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1st Prize Winner

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Wounded Earth Healing Time

To express my understanding of architecture and its mission in pure form, without the “noise” of the circumstances (specific group interests, personal relationships, construction limitations, outdated legislation, etc.) Participating in competitions is like a conversation with my deeper and holistic self, an attempt to escape from the practical and the mental boundaries of a world broken in pieces. It is a way to reach out for harmony, abstract beauty, understanding, and self-expression – all impulses hard to satisfy in everyday practice. It is also a process of exploration, discovery, and learning about the world and about myself.

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Author Peter Vatkov
Country United States

2nd Prize Winner

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THE GENERATOR OF PAIN AND LOVE

Authors Sizhe Wang, Changqing Ye, Xinyu Zhu
Country China

3rd Prize Winner +
BB GREEN AWARD

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Integrity

Architectural competitions are a good opportunity to improve various skills from an idea to its presentation. It is also interesting to see the approach of other teams and how diverse solutions can be within the same brief.

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Author Georgy Fedulov
Country Russian Federation

BB STUDENT AWARD

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THE HOME TALE

After working in the architectural filed in our country and participating in an internal competition, we felt to be in challenges of international competitions. Indeed, we will witness the positive effect of this issue in our professional work.

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Authors Hamid Khalili, Mohammad mobin Mahdizadeh kaffash
Country Iran
+74 points Buildner University Rankings

Client Favorite

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Lotus- the last genocide memorial

Author Berina Ramic
Country Bosnia and Herzegovina

Honorable Mentions

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The Dark Path

Author Marco Ugolini
Country Italy
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Confront the sky but the earth too memorial

Author Nicholas Hartman
Country Sweden
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The Last Genocide Memorial

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The Reflecting Chamber

Authors Nicholas Boyarsky, Chia-hsuan Lung, Hsin-wu Chen, Hao-yang Huang
Country United Kingdom
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One Journey

Author Paya Salem
Country Canada
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A silent audience

Author Sara Maria Camagni
Country Norway

Shortlisted projects

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The Stronger Together Pavilion

Austin Autrey

United States

beyond oblivion

Natasha Lvova

Moscow Institute of architecture - MARHI , Московский архитектурный институт - МАРХИ

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
Russian Federation

FOR THOSE WITHIN FROM THOSE WITHOUT

Jegan Vincent de paul

Canada

arktikos

Jordan Felber

United States

Beauty in Void

Alpamys Kemelbekov

Sadyr Khabukhayev

DNT Center Stroy

Kazakhstan

The Last Genocide Memorial

Alex Mcmillan

Fabiola Minerali

Lydia Richardson

Lucas Stott

United States

The Last Genocide Memorial

Donghyen Lee

South Korea

Confront the sky but the earth too memorial

Nicholas Hartman

Sweden

Silent Witness

Brock Muir

Australia

Responsibility path

Meroujan Minassian

Storaket Architectural Studio

Armenia

Fractures in Time

John Iacobacci

Devon Rowley

Ben Gravel

United States

BROKEN

Csaba Babud

Singapore

Crater of a Future

Wasaa Architects & associates

WASAA Architects & Associates

Singapore

Dualism

Nicolai daniel Christensen

Denmark

One Journey

Paya Salem

Canada

Nicolas Feola

Paul Vignolles

Léa Girault

RŪTO X SENECIO

France

Project ID 61438

Samaya Competition

Indonesia

We Knot

Virginia lucía Chavarría elvir

Ingrid del socorro Hamm ríos

Ángela paola Hidalgo gonzález

Adriana del carmen López abdalah

Nicaragua

Integrity

Georgy Fedulov

Russian Federation

Beneath The Surface

Oliver Beasley

United Kingdom

Is it green there now

Gaia Kadmon

Germany

Martin Gonzalez

United States

Memory Memorial

Brandon Hing

Aaron Chen

USC - University of Southern California

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
United States

A silent audience

Sara Maria Camagni

Norway

Materialized Memory

Gytis Vidziunas

Žilvinas Stasiulevičius

Lithuania

THE HOME TALE

Hamid Khalili

Mohammad mobin Mahdizadeh kaffash

Azad Sama university of Tehran Shariati branch

+74 points Buildner University Rankings!
Iran

Lotus- the last genocide memorial

Berina Ramic

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Last Genocide Memorial

Katharina Knebel

Daniel Ercin

Germany

NEVER AGAIN

Alp Demiroglu

Wendolin Gonzalez

United States

The Reflecting Chamber

Nicholas Boyarsky

Chia-hsuan Lung

Hsin-wu Chen

Hao-yang Huang

United Kingdom

THE GENERATOR OF PAIN AND LOVE

Sizhe Wang

Changqing Ye

Xinyu Zhu

China

Disappearance

Guillaume Porche

ENSAS - Strasbourg National School of Architecture, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Strasbourg

+22 points Buildner University Rankings!
France

The last Wall

Roderick Cloud

United States

Wounded Earth Healing Time

Peter Vatkov

United States

The Last Genocide Memorial. "The Chimney"

Jorge Aguila

Mary Ann Smith

Javier Quinteros

Australia

NEST

Laura Raspanti

Italy

Objects of Mourning

Clarisse Empaynado

Sina Erol

United States

MOUNTAINS OF LIVES

Tomoo Nitta

Himawari Design Co., Ltd.

Japan

In lasting light we remember them

Tayla Clarke

New Zealand

The Dark Path

Marco Ugolini

Italy