This is the proposal by London-based architecture firm ACME for a competition initiated by the City of Chungju in South Korea to design a UN Memorial which will rest in the city’s UN Peace Park.
ACME received third place for their stunning project, comprised of a 1,500 seating assembly, two conference halls, a theater and exhibition space.
The organization of the memorial is metaphorically modeled similarly to the United Nations, where many parts make up the whole.
Similar to how the UN is formed by individual nations, the memorial entails a cube comprised of smaller ‘cells’. These cells, which are meant to represent the ‘collective nature of the UN’s identity’ fuse together to create the final shape.
Each cell is meant to represent the collective nature of the United Nations’ identity and provide various amenities and functions from exhibitions to education, conference, office, restaurant, events and public viewing platforms.
ACME explained that the ‘memorial should represent the nature of the United Nations, where many individual nations come together to create one entity, but without losing their individual identities.’
ACME, London
Kelvin Chu, Daewon Kwak, Friedrich Ludwig, Isabel de la Mora, Monica Prenziuso, Teresa Yeh
Yooshin Architects & Engineers
Kim Chidok, Daehee Lee, Samyong Park, Daeoh Kwon, Hyunkyoung Oh, Jungheum Yun
