As mass shootings rise, with two in California in the last week alone, so do memorials that mark their memory including a thoughtful new one in Tucson.
A total of 28 projects from across the country have been honored as part of this year’s American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Professional Awards program.In an announcement made on October 3, the organization named its Excellence and Honor Awards winner across seven categories.
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On Jan. 6, pro-Trump supporters marched through Washington, D.C., and stormed the Capitol building, just as Congress was meeting to formally certify the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The insurrection left five people dead and a world in shock. Many asked, “Is this what America has become?”
The attack was also the same week that Tucson, Arizona, was marking the 10-year anniversary of a shooting rampage outside a supermarket that killed six people and injured 13, including then–U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The attack took place at a “Congress on Your Corner” event, days after Rep. Giffords had won a contentious reelection race.
JAN. 8 ANNIVERSARY: New memorial is celebration of life, spirituality, reflection and mourning
JAN. 8 ANNIVERSARY: New memorial celebration of life, spirituality and reflection By Damien Alameda | January 8, 2021 at 4:34 PM MST - Updated January 8 at 6:07 PM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - Some call it a place of spirituality, reflection or even mourning.
But for the designers of the January 8 Memorial, it is also a celebration of life.
“Memorials are a really unique project type,” said architect Tina Chee. “It requires many layers of meaning.”
Chee and partner Marc Salette created a design layered with such meaning.
Chee Salette, their Los Angeles-based firm, beat out 59 others for the honor of creating what would become the January 8 Memorial.