Mexico Picks Design for Quake Memorial
The government has chosen a modernistic design for Solidarity Plaza, which will be built in an area devastated by September’s earthquakes.
The design by architect Luis Vicente Flores Suarez is a 60-by-80-yard stone plaza slashed by a jagged fracture holding a rock.
Flores Suarez said the jagged fissure represents the Sept. 19-20 quakes that left more than 7,000 dead, and the rock symbolizes the solidarity and strength of the Mexican people after the tragedy.
Surrounding the rock will be stone pillars that represent the international aid sent to help Mexico’s recovery effort.
The design was chosen from among 83 entries in a government-sponsored competition.
The plaza will be built on the downtown site where the Regis Hotel and Salinas y Rocha furniture store stood for years. Both buildings were badly damaged in the quake and later demolished.
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