11M Memorial
July 6th, 2007
Madrid's memorial to the victims of the 11 March 2004 bombings looks amazing:
Completed this spring in time for the third anniversary of the tragedy, the luminous three-story monument is built of 150,000 curved glass blocks glued together with a liquid-acrylic material hardened by ultraviolet lamps. Inside the tower, an ETFE membrane – the same material used for Herzog & de Meuron’s Allianz Arena, in Munich, and OMA’s Serpentine Gallery, in London – is printed with hundreds of messages left at the station by mourners in the days after the bombings. After dark, the volume radiates softly in the sky from lights in the opening at its base; during the day, sunlight produces an ethereal glow as it filters through the glass tower and reflects off the deep blue surfaces in the underground chamber.
[Via The Morning News]
