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The last nuclear bomb memorial competition

Decommissioned Testing Site, Nevada.

We recently competed in Buildner’s architectural competition, “The Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial.” The competition asked the simple question, what does the memorial for the very last nuclear bomb event look like? We chose to participate in this competition because of its’ uniqueness and ambiguity. We were allowed to choose the site with the only limitation being it must be a decommissioned nuclear weapon testing site, which are sadly plentiful. The building program was entirely our decision, and the concept must be submitted on a single spread without text description. The entire competition brief:

 “For this architecture competition, participants are tasked with creating a memorial in a decommissioned nuclear weapon testing site. In response to the global silence surrounding the issue of nuclear weapons, participants in the Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial / Edition #3 competitions must submit their designs with no description text. The architecture ideas must be communicated strictly with visuals. We are asking participants to design a building or structure in which the architecture would do all the talking. There is no competition program defined. Participants my propose any functionality and scale.”

 And with that, the challenge began. Here you will find the final submissions for “The Shadow” and “Spore,” along with some AI images we generated early in the process to get us started. Read more about that process and our thoughts on the competition over on our blog. Link below:

https://www.hubweber.com/blogscroll/2024/7/23/the-one-where-we-made-a-nuclear-bomb-memorial