During the sentencing phase of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s trial in April, an extraordinary memorial was unveiled at MIT. Dedicated to the campus police officer killed by the Tsarnaev brothers as they fled, the Sean Collier Memorial is both a poetic sculptural form and an amazing feat of engineering and technology. The structure was designed by the Boston architecture firm Höweler + Yoon (H + Y) as a five-way vault of solid masonry: five asymmetrical arms or buttresses that support a shallow central arch to create a space for visitors to pause and reflect. The Collier memorial sits on the spot where the officer was shot, just in front of the MIT Stata Center designed by Frank Gehry. In counterpoint, it creates a powerfully solid yet sinuous presence.
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