Re: Comp: Query: Tsunami Memorial (Tourism related monumental activity) (*SAD*)

| so we aren't alone in linking Tourism to Tragedies via
| monumental architecture projects.

In response to the tragedy and the economic losses, the Thai government 
under the leadership of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has set up a 
committee, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Suwat Liptapanlop, to 
restore the tourism industry in the tsunami-affected areas. Under this 
committee, several sub-committees have been set up to deal with 
different issues, and one of them is the Sub-Committee for Tsunami 
Memorial Project chaired by Dr. Plodprasob Suraswadi, Vice Minister of 
Natural Resources and Environment. It is hoped that the project once 
completed will be a place where people from all over the world would 
like to visit and pay tribute. The first task undertaken by the 
Sub-Committee is to select a site to build the memorial and select
a design team through a process of international design competition.

To carry out the international design competition, the Sub-Committee for 
Tsunami Memorial Project has set up a working committee to act as 
competition organizer. The Competition Organizing Committee chaired by 
Apinan Poshyananda, Director-General of the Office of Contemporary Arts 
and Culture, Ministry of Culture, has appointed Council of Architects as 
the Competition Advisor to manage the design competition as well as 
administer the design competition procedure. The Council of Architects 
is a legitimate body which represents architectural profession and 
controls architectural licensing system in Thailand.

http://www.tsunamimemorial.or.th/overview.htm

| finalists announced: http://www.tsunamimemorial.or.th/finalist1.htm