The memorial to the victims of AIDS in New York ( eng. New York City AIDS Memorial ) - a monument built in memory of more than one hundred thousand men, women and children - New Yorkers who died from AIDS [1] . This is the first large monument dedicated to the aftermath of the AIDS epidemic in New York [1] . The memorial was opened on World AIDS Day on December 1, 2016 [2] . The project was developed by the efforts of almost five hundred architects who came up with the idea of a 5.5-meter steel canopy in the form of a gate to the New Park at St. Vincent’s Greenwich Village Hospital [3] [4] .
| New York Monument | |
| New York AIDS Victims Memorial | |
|---|---|
| English New York City AIDS Memorial | |
 St. Vincent's Triangle at the AIDS Victims Memorial Park in New York | |
| opening date | December 1, 2016 |
| Location | |
| Address | Manhattan Greenwich Village |
| Underground | 14th street |
Content
- 1 Description
- 2 History
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Description
The AIDS Memorial in New York City is located on 12th Street Triangular Islet, and Seventh Avenue in Greenwich Village .
The memorial is the gateway to a new public park adjacent to the former , which houses the city’s first and largest AIDS ward and is often considered a symbolic epicenter of the disease. The hospital appears as the scene in the plays , Angels in America , and many other well-known works of literature and art that tell about the time of the epidemic in New York [4] .
The memorial is a steel canopy 5.5 meters high, covering an area of approximately 150 m 2 . The structure consists of non-isosceles and isosceles triangles. Three large triangles from below support and connect the other two large triangles at the top, so that the whole composition becomes like a disassembled plane. Each of the triangles is filled with sixteen smaller triangles with lines similar to ventilation holes that light up at night [4] [5] .
History
In November 2011, in collaboration with the magazine and the Architizer industry database, the New York City AIDS Council announced an international competition for a park layout in memory of the victims of the AIDS epidemic in the city. The Brooklyn Studio a + i, led by Mateo Paiva, Lily Lim and Esteban Erlich, won this competition and received an official order to create a memorial park. The memorial complex also features the work of visual artist Jenny Holzer , whose idea was to engrave a granite panel with lines from Walt Whitman 's [4] [6] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 New York City AIDS Memorial Dedication . www.visualaids.org . Date of treatment January 13, 2017.
- ↑ Jeff Taylor. New York City AIDS Memorial unveiled on World AIDS Day . LGBTQ Nation (December 1, 2016). Date of treatment January 12, 2017.
- ↑ The New York City AIDS Memorial . www.nycaidsmemorial.org . Date of treatment December 1, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 The New York City AIDS Memorial . www.nycaidsmemorial.org . Date of treatment December 1, 2017.
- ↑ Amy Plitt. NYC's AIDS Memorial Is Dedicated, at Last, in the West Village . Curbed NY (December 1, 2016). Date of treatment January 12, 2017.
- ↑ Robin Finn . Envisioning a Perpetual Look for a Memorial AIDS Park , New York Times (January 30, 2012). Date of treatment December 1, 2017.
Links
- Schwartz Al. New York's Necessary New AIDS Memorial . The New Yorker (December 8, 2016). Date of treatment January 12, 2017.
- Basu Sh. New York City Dedicates a New AIDS Memorial . (December 1, 2016). Date of treatment January 12, 2017.
- . New York City Remembers the AIDS Epidemic . The Brian Lehrer Show . WNYC (December 1, 2016). Date of treatment January 12, 2017.