Memorial For Diana

The Paris city government has approved an Italian architect’s design for a tribute to Princess Diana - an above-ground extension of the traffic tunnel pillar into which her Mercedes crashed last year Gaetano Pesce, a well-known and renegade architect interested in the human spirit, said he was motivated to build the 12-foot concrete-and resin column by a desire to capture the public’s cathartic response to Diana’s death and funeral. “Diana was a symbol of our time. She symbolized fragility. But Diana’s fragility was positive because it allowed her to be open to other values,” he said.