Milanese architecture offfice AquiliAlberg have revealed their Grossmarkthalle Memorial Site competition proposal alongside news of Coop Himmelb(l)au's new premises for the European Central Bank (ECB).

The ECB will be constructing its new headquarters up until 2014 on the site of the Grossmarkthalle (former wholesale market hall) in Frankfurt.

In close cooperation with the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Jewish Community of Frankfurt, the City of Frankfurt, AquiliAlberg is to create a 16,500 square metre memorial site in the immediate vicinity of the former Grossmarkthalle to commemorate the deportation of more than 10,000 Jewish citizens of Frankfurt, who were assembled on this site before being deported to concentration camps.

The installation created for the Memorial Site is generated - and at the same time dissolved - into a spatial continuum that encompasses various entities; determined by flow generators, and become an integral whole.

The kinetic flow of people and locations: pedestrians, cyclists, joggers, and skateboarders, mixes with the energy flows of nature: water, light, air and energy emanating from the same plants and the green.

The area of the site expands horizontally and vertically as a continuum that includes space in developing areas to stop passersby, meetings, support plans, unusual points of view through the installation itself, making it permeable and in continuous contact with the surroundings.