Concrete and steel mausoleum for an engineer completed at Spanish cemetery
Spanish architects Amparo and Andres Martinez Vidal paired bulky concrete with delicately folded steel to create this mausoleum in Murcia (+ slideshow). More
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Towering copper memorial by Borheh honours an Iranian philosopher
Eight intersecting arches give a towering symmetry to this copper-coated mausoleum erected in the English countryside for a revered Iranian philosopher (photography by Edmund Sumner). More
Landscape intervention by Jonas Dahlberg to honour Norwegian terrorist attack victims
The 77 individuals who lost their lives during the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway will be commemorated by this competition-winning intervention by Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg to sever a strip of headland from the coastline near Oslo. More
Family mausoleum built from white marble and black glass by Armazenar Ideias
Portuguese studio Armazenar Ideias used blocks of white marble to build this cube-shaped mausoleum for a family living in the city of Póvoa de Varzim (+ slideshow). More
Nesher Memorial auditorium and gallery by SO Architecture
Israeli studio SO Architecture added this auditorium and gallery to a hilltop war memorial in Nesher, Israel, and tilted it upwards so that it faces towards the sky (+ slideshow). More
Libeskind picked for Ohio Holocaust memorial
News: architect Daniel Libeskind has been chosen to design a Holocaust memorial in the state capital of Ohio, USA. More
US lawmakers move to scrap Gehry's Eisenhower memorial
News: a Utah congressman has launched an attempt to scrap architect Frank Gehry's proposed Washington D.C. memorial honouring President Dwight D. Eisenhower, citing the project's cost and controversial design. More
Four Freedoms Park by Louis Kahn
These new shots by photographer Ty Cole document the scene at Louis Kahn's Four Freedoms Park in New York, which opened to the public in autumn 2012 almost 40 years after it was designed (+ slideshow). More
New Concordia Island by Alexander Laing and Francesco Matteo Belfiore
Sunken cruise ship the Costa Concordia would be transformed into a watery memorial garden in this competition-winning conceptual design by London architecture graduates Alexander Laing and Francesco Matteo Belfiore. More
Punggol Promenade by LOOK Architects
Singaporean studio LOOK Architects has created a landscaped park and promenade overlooking a beach in north-east Singapore where 400 Chinese civilians were murdered during World War II (+ slideshow). More
Memorial to all victims by Martin Papcún and Adam Jirkal
Designer Martin Papcún and architect Adam Jirkal of Atelier SAD want to immerse an upside-down shell of a house into the ground of St. Jakob’s Square in Munich. More
Dezeen’s top ten: memorials
This week a pair of commemorative structures by Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois were our most clicked story, so our first top ten of the year features the most popular memorials from our archive. More
Steilneset Memorial by Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois
Architect Peter Zumthor designed this memorial on an island in Norway to commemorate suspected witches who were burned at the stake there in the seventeenth century (photographs by Andrew Meredith). More
9/11 memorial by Michael Arad and Peter Walker
Here's an animation of the two memorial fountains at the World Trade Centre site in New York, which are due to open in three weeks time on the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. More
Indian Ocean Tsunami Memorial by Carmody Groarke
British architects Carmody Groarke have completed this granite monolith outside London's Natural History Museum to commemorate victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. More
Museum in Palmiry by WXCA
Each bullet-sized hole piercing the skin of this museum by architects WXCA in Palmiry, Poland, represents a Polish civilian murdered there during the holocaust. More
Sunset Chapel by Bunker Arquitectura
This boulder-shaped building in Acapulco, Mexico, is a mausoleum by Mexcian studio Bunker Arquitectura. More
Museo Casa de la Memoria
A collective of Colombian architects have designed a memorial museum for Medellín, Colombia, to commemorate victims of conflict. More
Memorial for Tree of Knowledge by m3architecture and Brian Hooper
Australian architects m3architecture and Brian Hooper Architect have completed a memorial to a tree in Queensland, Australia. More
7 July Memorial by Carmody Groarke
A memorial to the victims of the 7 July terrorist bombings designed by architects Carmody Groarke has opened in London four years after the attacks. More