Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, Berlin

This is the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a place of remembrance for around six million Jewish people killed under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. Peter Eisenman designed it. Across this broad, lowered field, 2,711 concrete stelae form a regular grid, with each block measuring 2.38 metres by 0.95 metres and rising to different heights, from 0.2 to 4.7 metres.

The paths run between the blocks in long, narrow lines, while the ground itself undulates beneath you. As you move through the field, the surrounding space can feel increasingly enclosed by the changing height of the stelae. Beneath the site, the Place of Information provides access to the names of approximately 3 million Jewish Holocaust victims, supplied by Yad Vashem.

The memorial was inaugurated on the 10th of May 2005, and it opened to the public two days later. Its stark arrangement does not illustrate a single scene; it gives you a physical space for remembrance, shaped through repetition, depth, and changing scale.