Client

The Manchester Memorial Trust

In partnership with

BCA Landscape ↗

What we did

Public realm collaboration
Naming Strategy
Branding
Copy-writing
Book design

Awards

ICE NW Civil Engineering Special Recognition Award Winner
Longlisted – Dezeen Awards 2022
International Loop Design – People’s Choice Awards

Photography

Matt Bell ↗

Drone images and video

Sparkle FX ↗

The Glade of Light – a place of tranquillity and a celebration of life. A collaboration with BCA Landscape.

It was an honour to be chosen to help the bereaved families and the wider team imagine and realise this memorial garden. The design ideas and thoughts behind ‘The Glade of Light’ have always come from a place of heart-felt respect and deep sympathy. Central to the space is a floating marble halo, inset in bronze with the names of the 22 concertgoers that lost their lives in the Manchester Arena attack in 2017.

We believe design is about and for people and it is not a fixed thing on a plan, but consists of an ever-changing, living and shifting series of moments.

Our wish for this garden is that it will allow everyone to linger in these moments and search for stillness.