Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants new law to allow construction of Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects’ Holocaust memorial

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised to enact proposed legislation that would pave the way for a Holocaust memorial on the banks of the Thames River designed by Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects.

The Holocaust Memorial Bill would update a 123-year-old law that mandates the site for which the memorial is proposed be used as a public park.

Sunak told House of Commons MPs that the government intends to “legislate to build the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre next to Parliament so the testimonies of survivors […] will be heard at the heart of our democracy by every generation to come.”

The project

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