Design Team Shortlist for Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Announced 

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25 February 2025

Five design teams have been shortlisted in the competition to design a permanent memorial to the UK’s longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.

The teams are:

• Foster + Partners with Yinka Shonibare and Michel Desvigne Paysagiste
• Heatherwick Studio with Halima Cassell, MRG Studio, Webb Yates and Arup
• J&L Gibbons with Michael Levine RDI, William Matthews Associates, Structure Workshop and Arup
• Tom Stuart-Smith with Jamie Fobert Architects, Adam Lowe (Factum Arte) and Structure Workshop
• WilkinsonEyre with Lisa Vandy and Fiona Clark, Andy Sturgeon Design, Atelier One and Hilson Moran

There will now be a ten-week design stage for the shortlist, who will be paid £50,000. The teams will be required to submit their design concepts later in the Spring.

The scheme will be situated at St James’s Park, along a pathway from Marlborough Gate across the Blue Bridge to Birdcage Walk. The competition brief includes a new bridge over the lake (replacing the Blue Bridge) and a standalone monument of the late Queen at the Marlborough Gate entrance. 

The final design will be formally announced in April 2026, to coincide with what would have been Queen Elizabeth’s hundredth birthday year. 

Picture: a photograph showing a lake at St James’ Park. Image Credit: Unsplash

Article written by Ella Tansley | Published 25 February 2025

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