October One Memorial

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The design honors the memory of the 58 victims who were murdered on October 1, 2017 at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, the most deadly mass-shooting in American history. The site is a 2-acre portion of the concert venue, adjacent to the Las Vegas Strip. The memorial monument expresses the magnitude of the tragedy, the strength of collective action taken in response to the violence and withstands the large-scaled spectacle of the commercial buildings on the Strip. The memorial remembers the 58 victims who died that evening in the architectural figure expression of Angels’ wings, an echo and homage to how the community of families of lost loved ones, survivors, first-responders, emergency responders refer to these innocent victims. The memorial also commemorates the courage of first-responders, law enforcement, fire fighters, and emergency medical teams—all as Guardian Angels who saved many lives, and the hundreds of wounded concertgoers, whose joy in country music that evening was turned into absolute terror, and whose traumatic wounds—both emotional and physical—continue to heal. A winged pavilion is an open-air sanctuary and a commemorative pavilion within a garden that tells the stories of the 58 Angels, survivors, responders and community within its walls, integrating commemorative, interpretive and narrative functions into one long monument. The memorial expresses the qualities of unity, strength, peace, family and remembrance that embody the feelings and values conveyed through direct dialogue with stakeholders during the design process.