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Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Design, Connecticut
Newtown Commemoration Proposal, CO, USA – design by SWA Landscape Architects
Aug 29, 2018
Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Design, Connecticut
Design: Ben Waldo and Daniel Affleck, SWA Group in San Franciscom & Justin Winters, SWA/BALSLEY in New York
Location: Newtown, Connecticut, USA
Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial Design, Connecticut

images Courtesy SWA Group
The Clearing, as the plan is called, was selected after an almost year-long design competition.

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, United States, when a 20-year-old fatally shot 20 children between six and seven years old, as well as six adult staff members. Prior to driving to the school, he shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. He then committed suicide after the shooting.

On December 16, 2012, two days later, President Barack Obama attended an interfaith vigil, and gave words of comfort to the bereaved An excerpt of his message that day will be inscribed on a stone wall in the entrance pavilion to a permanent memorial designed by the landscape architects SWA Group.

Conceived as a series of concentric circles, SWA?s design will draw visitors into the five-acre site near the new school, guiding them from a small parking lot (accessible via a gated entrance drive) to an open-air pavilion where they can prepare ...