A team of Lviv architects – Bureau Guess Line Architects won the All-Ukrainian architectural competition and will design a memorial complex-cemetery dedicated to the defenders of Ukraine in one of the regional centers – Mykolaiv.
This was reported in the urban planning department of the Lviv City Council. The architects also took second place in another Mykolaiv architectural competition for another memorial complex.
The Bureau of Guess Line Architects designed the Memorial to the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred in Lviv – the first and still the only public cultural space of Dignity of this scale in Ukraine.
“Such projects as information centers and memorial complexes are not only modern open-air museums or places to honor our heroes. This is our important weapon in the fight against the enemy, which should add strength to win this long war,” Guess Line Architects emphasized.
The Memorial to the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred has become an important place for Ukrainians. Hundreds of tourists and local residents visit the complex in Lviv every day. Later, an Information Center was opened near it.
At first, the project envisaged the construction of a museum bridge that would connect the Memorial with the square “On the Walls”. However, it was postponed. In the Information Center, visitors and excursion groups are told about the history of our country’s independence and the events of the Revolution of Dignity.
Special attention was paid to inclusion at the Memorial. In addition to the accessible Information Center, a convenient path for people with reduced mobility was built from it, which now connects the Memorial with Zamkova Street. Let’s emphasize that the majority of these works were carried out before the full-scale invasion.
“We live in a period of protracted war, when the number of such visitors will only increase. This is our new reality, in which we must live with dignity. Today, the entire memorial complex together with the Information Center is not just a museum, it is our weapon in the fight against the enemy. Therefore, it is very important that whole chapters of our great history are interspersed in such spaces,” adds Andriy Lesiuk, architect of Guess Line Architects.