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| | WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN AWARD FOR URBAN DESIGN Shrine of Remembrance undercroft development, Ashton Raggatt McDougall
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The Shrine of Remembrance, on the axis of
St Kilda Road, is Melbourne’s most visible and
poignant war memorial. Designed by Hudson
and Wardrop in Grecian Classical style and
completed in 1933, the Shrine dominates the
southward vista from the city, maintaining a
powerful visual and symbolic presence.
The skilful contemporary intervention by
Ashton Raggatt McDougall creates education
spaces for the Shrine’s changing role as an
interpreter of war’s sacrifices for new
generations. The new building resolves the
dilemma of visual conflict by carving the new
into the plinth of the old.
Entry portals, clad in Tynong granite, flank
quadrants of the Shrine’s rigorous symmetrical
composition to create a significant urban
presence while retaining modesty and respect.
The relationship between new and old is both
subtle and powerful, and speaks of the
emerging role of the Shrine from custodian of
memory to that of teaching and shaping values
of new generations.
The Shrine’s optical perfection, achieved by
Hudson and Wardrop in the classical Greek
tradition of subtle inclines and curvatures, is
cleverly complemented by the inclined planes
of the new sunken enclosures. Emotive red
walls highlight the serrated incision into the
earth and are reminiscent of the temporary
timber shuttering of wartime trenches.
The new planning strategies devised for the
Shrine masterfully extend the functions of the
complex and the cultural role of the site.
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| Project Credits |
SHRINE OF REMEMBRANCE, UNDERCROFT DEVELOPMENT
Architect Ashton Raggatt
McDougall—design architect Ian
McDougall; project architects
Ken Boole, Tim Wright; project
team Howard Raggatt, Steve
Ashton, Andrew Lilleyman,
Neil Masterton, Daniella
Casamento, Jesse Judd, Mike
Nowson, Antony McPhee.
Landscape consultant
Rush/Wright Associates.
Structural and civil consultant
Connell Mott McDonald.
Electrical and mechanical
consultant Scott Wilson Irwin
Johnson. Irrigation design
Landscape and Irrigation
Services. Exhibition design
Cunningham Martyn Design.
Lighting consultant
Stephen Hennessy Design.
Quantity consultant
Rider Hunt Melbourne.
Builder L. U. Simon.
Photographer John Gollings.
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