June 24 (UPI) -- The international architecture firm Foster + Partners was announced as the winner of a multi-million-dollar competition to design a national memorial to the late Queen Elizabeth II in London.
Norman Foster's firm beat out five other finalists with its pitch for a new cast-glass bridge inspired by Elizabeth's wedding tiara as part of a commemorative garden in St. James' Park, with spaces for visitors for quiet reflection.
The proposals also feature a statue of Elizabeth on horseback and a cast of her and her husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, who died in 2021, at a new Prince Philip Gate.
"We showed them together and, in a way, there was this inseparable quality which we sought to convey," Foster said.
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