The City of Los Angeles selects a poignant memorial design to commemorate the victims of the 1871 Chinese Massacre
The competition to design a monument to the 1871 Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles has selected a winner three months after publishing a six-finalist shortlist to design what is by rights one of the most significant public memorials in the United States in recent memory. Artist Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong and writer Judy Chui-Hua Chung’s proposal for a chilling assembly of petrified banyan trees will take hold along the 400 block of North Los Angeles Street, near the site of the massacre and current home of the Chinese American Museum, which is one of the strategic project partners for the memorial initiative.Read the full post on Bustler
The competition to design a monument to the 1871 Chinese Massacre in Los Angeles has selected a winner three months after publishing a six-finalist shortlist to design what is by rights one of the most significant public memorials in the United States in recent memory.
Artist Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong and writer Judy Chui-Hua Chung’s proposal for a chilling assembly of petrified banyan trees will take hold along the 400 block of North Los Angeles Street, near the site of the massacre and current home of the Chinese American Museum, which is one of the strategic project partners for the memorial initiative.Read the full post on Bustler
