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World War 1 and World War 2 Memorials - Sentinels
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World War 1 and World War 2 Memorials - Sentinels
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This memorial honours the sacrifice of those Australians who died during the two World Wars, equally as it is an evocation of mourning and loss. The memorial would be visible from the shores of Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin, and along the length of the main axis between Parliament House and the National War Memorial. This competition scheme consists of a constructed garden landscape, and a series of monumental vertical towers, standing like sentinels on either side of the parliamentary axis. The landscape is a tapestry of tilted planes of water and stone and vegetation, its geometry derived from an abstraction of the axes of Walter Burley Griffin’s urban plan for Canberra. Growing in two clusters from this landscape are a series of monumental towers, four on one side representing the four years of the First World War and six on the other representing the duration of the Second World War. Raw and crude in their materiality, these forms are evocative of human figures - a group of soldiers standing at ease, a collection of mourners with heads bowed, a cluster of women waiting for news, a spectral gathering of ghostly figures rising above a blasted battlefield. The towers will also allude to the vegetal, to growth and regeneration, to new life springing even out of a scarred landscape. The space around and beneath these towers provides a solemn place of reflection.
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