National Pulse Memorial & Museum International Design Competition

This Competition challenges architects to form a multi-disciplinary team with urban designers, landscape architects, exhibition designers, and artists to create an iconic place of remembrance and acceptance, and a sacred and safe place that teaches love, motivates action, and transforms thinking.

Category Project Competition
Type International, Project, RfQ, Restricted, Two-Stage, Onymous
Genre Memorial, Museum
Country Orlando, United States
RegDeadline 30 April 2019 GoogleCal iCal
30 April 2019 (via Online)
Eligibility Architects from around the world to form and lead a visionary, multi-disciplinary team of professionals (Design Team)

Description
On June 12, 2016, 49 angels sought the joy, love, and acceptance of Pulse nightclub. Instead, they found hatred. And they never came home. They were gay. They were straight. Latin, black, white. Mothers. Brothers. Sisters. Daughters. Sons. Lost forever. Targeted for their association. Attacked for their acceptance. Silenced for their love. And murdered simply because they chose to be themselves.
This was both a terrorist act and a hate crime. Yet in the aftermath of the largest and deadliest act of violence affecting LGBTQ+ people, and one of the deadliest terrorist attacks by a single gunman in modern American history, the Orlando community and the world came together to prove that love will overcome fear and hatred. Under this banner, the onePULSE Foundation, a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit, was created to memorialize this tragedy and ensure that Pulse’s legacy of love, acceptance and hope will never be lost.
Inspired by community feedback, onePULSE intends to build the National Pulse Memorial & Museum including a pedestrian pathway called Survivors Walk, on the site of the Pulse nightclub and nearby properties.
The National Pulse Memorial will be a sanctuary of hope and healing that honors the 49 lives that were taken, their families, the 68 injured victims, all the affected survivors, and the first responders and healthcare professionals who cared for the victims.
The Pulse Museum will educate, enlighten, inspire reflection and rumination, and start conversations that will change mindsets. The museum will provide a permanent home for artifacts and archives of the tragedy and represent a lasting legacy of the global response of love seen in the weeks and months following the shooting.
Survivors Walk will trace the three-block journey many victims and survivors took the night of the tragedy to get to the Orlando Regional Medical Center. Together, the National Pulse Memorial & Museum, including Survivors Walk, will be a tribute to all those affected, will engage and educate visitors from around the world, and will serve as a catalyst for positive change.
The National Pulse Memorial & Museum International Design Competition challenges architects to form a multi-disciplinary team with urban designers, landscape architects, exhibition designers, and artists to create an iconic place of remembrance and acceptance, and a sacred and safe place that teaches love, motivates action, and transforms thinking.
A place that makes it clear: We will not let hate win.
onePULSE Foundation anticipates total hard construction costs for the new facilities and surrounding landscape design will be approximately $45 million.

Jury
Mayra Alvear, Victim’s Liaison, Mother of Amanda Alvear, Task Force Advisory Council, onePULSE
Mark Cosgrove, Board of Trustees , onePULSE, Partner, Capital Strategies
Earl Crittenden, Chair, Board of Trustees onePULSE, GrayRobinson, P.A.
Yolande Daniels, Principal, studioSUMO
Mayor Jerry Demings, Orange County, Florida
Mayor Buddy Dyer, Orlando, Florida
Teresa Jacobs, School Board Chair, Orange County Public Schools, former Orange County Mayor
George A. Kalogridis, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees onePULSE, President, Walt Disney World
Hilary Lewis, Board of Trustees onePULSE, Chief Curator & Creative Director, The Glass House
Ricardo J. Negron-Almodovar, Survivor, Service Legal Coordinator, Latino Justice Southeast Office
Barbara Poma, Owner, Pulse Nightclub, Founder & CEO, onePULSE
Andrew Snyder, Board of Trustees, onePULSE, S.V.P., Marketing and Strategic Communications, Orlando Health
Laurinda H. Spear, Co-Founder, Arquitectonica, Principal, ArquitectonicaGEO
Sarah Whiting, Dean, Rice University School of Architecture, Principal WW Architecture
Susanna Sirefman, Competition Director and Jury Advisor, President, Dovetail Design Strategists

Prize
Design contract
An honorarium of $50,000 will be paid to each of the shortlisted teams.

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
Shortlist Announced: Late May, 2019
Interim Presentations and Review: Mid-July 2019
Concept Design Due: Early September 2019
Public Exhibition: Late September-early October, 2019
Presentations to the Jury: Mid-October, 2019
Winning Team Announced: Late October 2019
onePULSE’s goal for project completion is 2022.

Organizer
Dovetail Design Strategists, LLC

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