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New York City
Brian Tolle / 1100 Architect / Gail
Wittwer Laird
This is the Irish Hunger Memorial, designed
by artist Brian Tolle in association with 1100 Architect and
landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird. Theirs was the winning
entry in a five-team invited design competition in 2000 for
a site donated by the Battery Park City Authority. The scheme,
as Juergen Riehm, AIA, of 1100 Architect says, is meant to
communicate how conflicts and natural disasters affect the
land in ways that lead to hunger. Ironically, even this quarter-acre
of well-maintained 'land' has already seen its difficulties.
Dedicated in July 2002, it underwent extensive repairs this
spring due to the overuse that came with success and to a
particularly hard New York winter.
—Cynthia Davidson
Plus see the people
and products behind the making of this project.
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