PARIS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE LAUNCHES

COMPETITION FOR “BREXIT MONUMENTS”
As part of Paris School of Architecture’s 2017/18 research theme, which is
discussing the infrastructural implications of the United Kingdom’s
withdrawal from the European Union, the institute has launched an
international architecture competition seeking Brexit Monuments.
The Eurotunnel (providing rail services connecting London to Paris and
Brussels’), constructed between 1988 and 1994, is an important example
of European infrastructural cooperation that emerged from a political
ideologue that appears to become increasingly distant, or even impossible to
imagine today.
Brexit Monuments proposes an architectural engagement with this
particularly loaded political issue, a monument to Brexit , located next to the
Channel Tunnel entrances in either (or both) France or the UK and visible
to travelers using the Eurostar service between London and Paris.