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The Department of Canadian Heritage has revealed five competing designs for a relocated and drastically downsized Memorial to the Victims of Communism at the Garden of the Provinces and Territories on Wellington Street.

Only one of the five designs is literally representational — depicting a toppling sculpture of Communist icon Vladimir Lenin. Three others feature collections of artfully arranged rods, while one relies on a “veil,” reminiscent of the wooden veil at Lansdowne’s Park’s TD Place, to convey its meaning.

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Five teams of artists, architects, landscape architects and other design professionals were short-listed last November and given until Thursday to submit their proposals.

Here’s a summary of the teams and their creations:

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Team space2place, made up of Vancouver landscape architect Jeff Cutler and Philadelphia artist Ken Lum.

Its entry shows a sculpture of Lenin in the throes of being toppled, “recreating in permanent form the befalling of Communist statuary at the zenith of decisive political and social change.”