Jury Comments
A confident
intervention within the context of a strong architectural concept, a
confined below-grade space and the historic Shrine of Remembrance.
The jury was encouraged by the landscape architect's desire to go
beyond narrow views of design as problem solving and to engage with a
bigger brighter world of ideas: design as problem making. Having
stated their intentions to do so the landscape architect then
delivered a project of remarkable rigor. The project strongly embraces
the symbolic use of plants and materials. Especially the Olive tree,
but also the Oak and Laurel hedges, and the use of sandy sandstones and
timber “wharf” structures.
Despite the limited space, numerous design themes successfully coexist
due to the skilful articulation of the composition: spatially and
materially.
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