The finalists to design the San Francisco Veteran Memorial were announced yesterday at an event at Memorial Court. The memorial was planned in the 1920’s but was never installed in 1936 when the Memorial Court between the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building was completed.
Hundreds of artists from across the USA answered the call to design a memorial last summer. The list was narrowed down to three artist teams and according to the Daily Journal the finalists are:
- Lee Norman is teaming up with Scott Slaney and Ricardo Supiciche of SWA Group.
- Larry Kirkland and J. Douglass Macy. Kirkland who have collaborated in the past.
- Susan Narduli with landscape architect Andrea Cochran
The three design team finalists will submit their proposal to the Veterans Memorial Committee in spring of 2011 with the final artist to be announced in May 2011. With the formal dedication in November 2013.
SOURCE: Daily Journal
