Corregidor-Bataan Memorial Competition Entry Project, Corregidor, Manila Bay, The Philippines (1957)

Structure Type: built works - social and civic buildings - monuments

Designers: Dailey, Gardner A., Architect (firm); Kitchen and Hunt, Architects (firm); Gardner Acton Dailey (architect); Frank Bouldin Hunt (architect); Robert Sieber Kitchen (architect)

Dates: constructed 1957

click to open gallery Photograph of the members of the Corregidor-Bataan Memorial Competition Committee, likely Washington, DC, c. 1955. Emmet O'Neal, a US Representative from Kentucky and former Ambassador to the Philippines (1947-1948), who co-chaired the committee, was seated third from left, while Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz sat second from left. Architect Pietro Belluschi, co-chair of the committee, was seated in the first row, first on the right; From the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).gov, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, accessed 06/13/2023
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Corregidor Island, Cavite The Philippines
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Building History

The San Francisco-based architectural firms of Gardner A. Dailey and Kitchen and Hunt collaborated with the sculptor Boris Lovet Lorsky on a design entry for the Corregidor-Bataan Memorial Competition of the mid-1950s. They were one of ten invited firms competing in the second phase of the competition, after the first open phase.

Building Notes

Unbuilt.

PCAD id: 24679

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