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May 14, 2025

Giant lily pads and a bronze tree are among designs for Queen Elizabeth II's memorial

  • The final design is scheduled to be approved next year, the 100th anniversary of the queen's birth.
    • By JILL LAWLESS
    Associated Press

    Image by Heatherwick Studio, with Halima Cassell, MRG Studio, Webb Yates and Arup [enlarge]
    The entry by designer Thomas Heatherwick’s Heatherwick Studio includes a canopy of giant limestone lily pads with twisting stems towering over a statue of the queen.

    LONDON — What could be a better memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, than a pod of faintly psychedelic giant lily pads? Perhaps a big bronze tree or a recording of the late monarch's voice.


     
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