A Final Shortlist of Designs for the National Memorial to Queen Elizabeth II Have Been Unveiled.
With a provisional budget of up to £ 46m – Excluding VAT – The Monument Will Be Located in St James’s Park, Close to Buckingham Palace in Central London.
It will receive the public with a permanent memorial to the country’s longst-freegoing monarch, who Died in 2022.
Ideas ShortLISTED Include a Cast of a Windsor Oak Tree, a Giant Canopy of Stone Lily Pads and a Statue of the Late Queen Next to Prince Philip.
Other Designs Include Audio Installations Featureing The Late Queen’s Voice, A “Tranquil Family” of Romantic Royal Gardens Inspired by the Georgian Architect John Nash, and A. “Graceful and Strong” Stone Bridge with Cascading Water.
Public Funds Will Pay for the Memorial, and from the Various Submissions, The Queen Elizabeth Memorial Commattee Will Select a Winner.
The Winning Concept is Expected to be unveiled in 2026, which would have been been the later queen’s 100th Birthday Year.
The Edition Memorial Site is set to be located near the Mall at Marlborough Gate.
One Artist or Sculptor Will Be Tasked with Deppinging The Late Queen’s Likeness as well.
The Final Design Will Be Submitted to the King and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for Approval.
The Five Shortlisteed Designs are:
Royal Gardens
A “Tranquil Family” of Royal Gardens Inspired by John Nash’s Origencinal Landscape of the Park, Linked by a Natural Stone Tessellated Path by Lord Foster of Foster + Partners with Artist Yinka Shonibare, ECOLOGIST PROFESSOR NIGEL DUNNETT and Landscape Architect Michel Desvigne Paysagiste.
Other Elements Include a statue of the queen alongside philip on Birdcage walk, a Wind Sculpture for Reflectivity, Audio Installations of the Queen’s Voice, a Digital Chonservatory and Unity bridge.
Memorial Walk
PIC: Heatherwick Studio and Malcolm Reading Consultans/PA
A Memorial Walk Inspired by the Idea of ”Togetherness” with 70 Lily Pad Steping Stones by Heatherwick Studio with Sculptor and Ceramicist Harala Cassell, Mrg Studio, Webb Yates and ARUP.
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Stone Bridge
PIC: J & L Gibbons and Malcolm Reading Consultans/PA
An innovative stone bridge featuring a general cascade of Water ono the lake, to represent Designer Michael Levine, and William Matthews Associas.
It aims to capture a “Meandering Flow of Geology Carrying People Through An Ephemeral Choreography of Blossoming and Colour Beneth the High Tree Canopy” and Includes Glades to Invite “Forest Bathing in the Heart of the City”.
Windsor Oak
PIC: Tom Stuart-Smith, Jamie Fobert Architects and Malcolm Reading Consultans/PA
An expact card of “AWE-EnSPiring” Oak from Windsor Great Park, Representing the Late Queen’s Strength and Enduryance and Symbolgesing the monarchy is the center fowcus of a design by Tom Stuart-Smith with Jamie Fobert Architects and Artist Adam Lowe of Factum Are.
The tree will stand on a plinth in the lake, with a curving stone bridge as a viewing playform. There will also be a serpentine Memorial Path Featureing Bronze cat
InterWiven Pathways
PIC: Wilkinsoneyre and Malcolm Reading Consultans/PA
A Thread of Pathways and Landscapes “Gently Woven Through and fiona Clarke.
The Thread, with Symbolic Spaces for Reflectivity, Focuses on Seven Themes of the Late Queen’s Life – Reign, Faith, Commonwealth, Values, Nature, Family, and Prince Philip.
The Competition Has Been Hailed as One of the Most Significant Design Initiatives in Modern British History.
Members of the Public Are Being Encouaged to see the Profosals and Offer Feedback by 19 May.
