A little while ago I mentioned that I posting was going to be a little slow as I had a competition to work on. If you don’t remember, I believe my exact words were that I had masterpieces to design.
The competition was for a National Police Memorial in Canberra. The results were announced today and I came equal third. Which I am happy with. The thing was never going to stand up anyway; it was totally going to fall over without warning.
The winner is a variation on a theme set in place by Maya Lin and does not excite me a great deal. To me, second place was probably a stronger scheme and had some beautiful drawings. The other 76 entries can be seen here.
My proposal looked to create a memorial that was not a wall with names on it. It used the elements of column and roof to express the idea of a heavy load being carried by many. The roof folds down to collect water and brass windchimes echo the bells of the nearby carillon. I thought everyone dug windchimes. Seems I was mistaken.
Anyway here are all the A1 boards:
Site Plan
Plans
Perspective.
Section and Elevation.
And finally, a particularly high contrast day on Lake Burley Griffin…
June 23rd, 2005 at 9:44 am
you was robbed
June 24th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
well done
June 25th, 2005 at 11:48 am
I can see the “many”, but I think maybe they need more “load”. I think it’s a much better design than the winner. I’ve seen memorial walls before.
June 28th, 2005 at 11:22 pm
And here I was thinking it was that _other_ competition……