The international heritage body that advises Unesco on World Heritage Sites is standing by its objections to David Adjaye’s controversial UK Holocaust Memorial, it has emerged.

Icomos – short for the International Council on Memorials and Sites – last year expressed concerns about the impact of the memorial, designed by Adjaye and Ron Arad for Victoria Tower Gardens immediately south of the Palace of Westminster.

Although the scheme underwent further pre-submission tweaks, and has been amended since the plans were lodged with Westminster council in January, Icomos has now said that nothing the project team has done fundamentally addresses its concerns.

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