In Pictures: Final five designs shortlisted for Queen Elizabeth II national memorial

Five shortlisted designs for a nationalist memorial to Queen Elizabeth II have been unveiled. 

The monument, which will supply nan nationalist pinch a permanent memorial to nan UK’s longest-reigning monarch, will beryllium located successful St James's Park, adjacent to Buckingham Palace successful cardinal London. 

The nationalist tin view nan proposals and connection feedback until 19 May via nan online accumulation managed by Malcolm Reading Consultants. 

According to the Cabinet Office, nan building fund will beryllium betwixt £23m and £46m, depending connected nan selected design. Public costs will salary for nan memorial, and from nan various submissions, nan Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee will prime a winner. 

The winning conception is expected to beryllium unveiled adjacent year, arsenic 2026 would person been nan precocious Queen's 100th day year. 

Here are nan 5 shortlisted Queen memorial designs:

Royal gardens

A “tranquil family” of royal gardens inspired by John Nash’s original scenery of nan park, linked by a earthy chromatic tessellated way by Lord Foster of Foster + Partners pinch creator Yinka Shonibare, ecologist Professor Nigel Dunnett and scenery designer Michel Desvigne Paysagiste. 

Other elements see a statue of nan Queen alongside Philip connected Birdcage Walk, a upwind sculpture for reflection, audio installations of nan Queen's voice, a integer conservatory and a unity bridge. 

Bridge of Togetherness

A memorial locomotion inspired by nan thought of “togetherness” pinch 70 lily pad stepping stones by Heatherwick Studio pinch sculptor and ceramicist Halima Cassell, MRG Studio, Webb Yates and Arup. 

At nan centre of nan span is simply a limestone sculpture of nan precocious Queen, protected by a elephantine canopy of 8 carved sculptural lily pads, pinch nan chromatic chosen because it will “age pinch dignity”. 

Stone bridge

An innovative chromatic span featuring a cascade of h2o onto nan lake, to correspond nan precocious Queen arsenic nan bedrock of nan nation, has been designed by J&L Gibbons pinch accumulation designer Michael Levine, and William Matthews Associates. 

It intends to seizure a "meandering travel of earth science carrying group done an ephemeral choreography of blossoming and colour beneath nan precocious character canopy" and includes glades to induce "forest bathing successful nan bosom of nan city". 

The Queen's Oak

An nonstop formed of an "awe-inspiring" oak from Windsor Great Park, representing nan precocious Queen's spot and endurance and symbolising nan monarchy is nan cardinal attraction of a creation by Tom Stuart-Smith pinch Jamie Fobert Architects and creator Adam Lowe of Factum Are. 

The character would guidelines connected a plinth successful nan lake, pinch a curved chromatic span arsenic a viewing platform. There would besides beryllium a memorial way featuring bronze casts of important objects from nan precocious Queen's life and a "sonic soundscape" of memories from those she impacted. 

Interwoven pathways

A thread of pathways and landscapes "gently woven done nan earthy fabric" of nan parkland pinch a brace of "elegant bridges" person been projected by WilkinsonEyre pinch artists Lisa Vandy and Fiona Clarke. 

The thread, pinch symbolic spaces for reflection, focuses connected 7 themes of nan precocious Queen's life - reign, faith, Commonwealth, values, nature, family, and Prince Philip.

The projected designs are disposable to position here. The last creation will beryllium submitted to nan King and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer for approval. 

Additional sources • Malcolm Reading Consultants