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MASS Design Group

UK Holocaust Memorial

Project Data

Full Team

Year 2017

Status Unbuilt

Size 3158 sq m

Location London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Partners United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation

Collaborators John McAslan & Partners, Arup, Transsolar, Local Projects, Lily Jencks Studio

Focus areas Civic Spaces & Cultural Centers, Memorials & Monuments, Parks & Public Spaces

Services Architecture, Film & Media

Project Team Thatcher Bean, Whitney Hansley, Jeffrey Mansfield, Michael Murphy, Nadia Perlepe, David Saladik

Full Team

Project Team Thatcher Bean, Whitney Hansley, Jeffrey Mansfield, Michael Murphy, Nadia Perlepe, David Saladik

Our proposal for the UK Holocaust Memorial transforms individual acts of remembrance into a collective commitment to justice and peace.

MASS and John McAslan + Partners were one of ten teams shortlisted to design the UK Holocaust Memorial, to be located in London’s Victoria Tower Gardens near the Houses of Parliament.

Our proposal envisioned a powerful memorial composed of six million individual stones—each representing a Jewish life lost during the Holocaust. Visitors would be invited to take a stone and light a candle, a symbolic gesture of remembrance and a pledge to prevent the recurrence of past injustices.

John McAslan + Partners

John McAslan + Partners

In Jewish tradition, placing a stone at a grave honors the deceased and signifies continued remembrance. It is a simple act that links generations. The Holocaust violently disrupted this sacred ritual, leaving not only six million lives lost, but generations erased—millions of stones left unplaced.

Proposed in 2017, our design sought to reassemble those missing stones at the heart of London, transforming a simple act of memory into a collective call to justice, tolerance, and enduring vigilance.

John McAslan + Partners