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架构师提供的文本描述。为了纪念1845-1852年的爱尔兰大饥饿，炮台公园城市管理局选出了一个由1100名建筑师、景观设计师盖尔·维特韦-莱尔德和艺术家布莱恩·托勒组成的队伍。纪念馆位于巴特利公园城，靠近哈德逊河，是一个沉思的空间，游客在那里探索饥荒及其与当今世界饥饿的联系。

Text description provided by the architects. To create a memorial commemorating the Great Irish Hunger of 1845-1852, the Battery Park City Authority selected a team consisting of 1100 Architect, landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, and artist Brian Tolle. Located in Battery Park City on a site adjacent to the Hudson River, the memorial is a contemplative space where visitors explore the famine and its connections to world hunger today.

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 © Peter Aaron

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在爱尔兰石灰石和照明玻璃的基础上，小组重建了一片崎岖的景观，其中包括废弃的马铃薯田、各种种类的爱尔兰本土植物，以及爱尔兰32个县中的每一个县用石头建造的墙壁。纪念碑的底座上刻着描述“伟大的爱尔兰饥饿”历史的文字，并在全世界饥饿的大背景下描绘了这场悲剧。游客们从基地的西侧进入并攀登一条通道，这条通道通向一座被毁的饥荒时期的梅奥县农舍，捐赠给该项目，并重建成纪念馆。离开农舍后，游客们可能会在田里闲逛，还会在土豆沟里闲逛。这座景观悬臂耸立在一座被照亮的石头和玻璃底座上，从东南角的街道水平上升到西端25英尺的高度，在那里，游客可以看到哈德逊河、自由女神像和埃利斯岛的景色。

On a base of Irish limestone and illuminated glass, the team re-created a rugged landscape that comprises abandoned potato fields, various species of native Irish plants, and walls made of stones from each of Ireland’s 32 counties. The monument’s base is inscribed with text that recounts the history of the Great Irish Hunger and that frames the tragedy within the wider context of hunger world-wide.  From the base’s west side, visitors enter and ascend through a passageway that opens into a ruined famine-era cottage from County Mayo, donated to the project and reconstructed into the memorial. Leaving the cottage, visitors may wander through the fields and overgrown potato furrows. The landscape cantilevers out over an illuminated stone and glass base structure, rising from street level at its southeastern corner to a height of 25 feet at its western end, where it provides visitors with views of the Hudson River, the Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island. 

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Architects 1100 Architect

Location New York, NY, United States

Category Memorial Center

Architect in Charge David Piscuskas, FAIA, LEED AP Juergen Riehm, FAIA, BDA

Area 16320.0 ft2

Project Year 2001

Photographs Peter Aaron