Steven Holl Architects and SKUPINA take first place in the Terezin Ghetto Museum contest in the Czech Republic
Steven Holl Architects, in collaboration with Marcela Steinbachová and SKUPINA Studio, won first place in the international competition of the Terezín Ghetto Museum in the Czech Republic. Terezín was founded in 1780 as a military fortress and served as a Jewish ghetto during World War II, killing an estimated 33,000 people. The existing Terezin Ghetto Museum honors individuals who have died with a new design set to act as a monument to hope and light.
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Selected from 22 international teams, award-winning designs and dubbing Tower of lightIs a meditative space that provides visitors with an immersive experience of the spectral light phenomenon from sunlight. Light is refracted into various colors, similar to the “color of mankind.” It also glows as a “beacon in the dark” at night.
The Tower of Light is a hopeful new entity in the heart of Terezín, towering above the surrounding buildings towards the sky. The design also includes refurbishment of existing museums, exhibition spaces, new parks, green spaces around the site, updated parking lots, and new information centers.
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This project is in favor of “Moon Landscape” by Petr Gintz. Born in Prague on February 1, 1928, Ginz was deported to the Terezin deportation camp and painted this imaginative Earth from the moon. In 1944, Ginz was deported to Auschwitz and gassed at the age of 16.
The design team includes Veronika Tichá, Jan Mojka, Marie Harigelová, Michael Haddy, Talya Polat, Obrazek.org + Michal Nohejlas Associate Architect, Exhibition Concept Designer David Korecký, Construction Consultant Vladimir Pavlovič, and Landscape Designer Jan Sulzer. ..
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