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ATLANTIC CITY - A panel of architects and Holocaust experts with international reputations will choose the final design for a planned Holocaust memorial on the city's Boardwalk.

The committee planning the memorial announced this morning that its jurors for a design competition -- open online now to everyone from professionals to students -- will include Daniel Liebeskind, the master planner for rebuilding the World Trade Center site in New York, and Richard Meier, the architect of The Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Liebeskind and Meier, who have designed other projects throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, will join four more architects and scholars in a jury that picks the final design for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial. The memorial is set to go on what's now a covered pavilion off the Boardwalk between Kentucky and New York avenues.

The jurors will choose the winners of an international design competition whose first stage started this month and is scheduled to end next March. They plan to come to Atlantic City in August to select among six finalists chosen from among all entries submitted online to the memorial's Web site:

www.acbhm.org

The memorial committee plans to show off models of the six finalists locally for two months next summer. The members hope to have the multi-million-dolllar memorial built on the Boardwalk by 2012.

The committee, which is also raising the money to build the memorial, formally announced the design contest and jurors today in Mayor Lorenzo Langford's office. The speakers included the mayor, Rabbi Gordon Geller, the president of the memorial committee, and Paul Winkler, the executive director of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.

The city donated the pavilion to the committee, but the group will use all private money to build the memorial.

2 comments:

• B4real (371) posts 7:11 pm

  Agreed Bernie! The morons running this city just don't get it. As if Atlantic City isn't depressing enough. Just like that ugly hulking concrete monstrosity (Vietnam Memorial) that blocks Brighton Park. The Jews abandoned A.C. long ago. Why don't they put it in Margate or somewhere more appropriate.

• BernieSchwartz (645) posts 2:52 pm

  Holocaust memorial on the boardwalk, how festive!! Who's idea is this? On the boardwalk?? Let's put an abortion clinic next to it, a 2 million dollar clinic. Politcal correctness has gone way to far.

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