Photographs of the hill with the dramatic landscape of wooden crosses have been published in newspapers and magazines around the country. "You build a memorial for someone, then you take it down? That ...

Anyone who has ever driven or taken BART through the city of Lafayette has probably noticed thousands of white wooden crosses ...

Even after nearly 20 years, architect Lara Dutto is still astonished by Lafayette’s Hillside Memorial, a collection of thousands of simple, wooden white crosses across from the city’s BART station.

Then the two visited Clement Park near Columbine High School and placed the heart on a wooden memorial cross created for shooting victim Rachel Joy Scott. "Love Adam, age 7," he wrote on his tribute. ...

Lara Dutto to preserve the Lafayette Hillside Memorial from development, while building 15 single-family homes at 3600 Deer ...