Tonkin Zulaikha Greer与艺术家Janet Laurence合作，通过澳大利亚政府举行的有限竞争赢得了这个项目。纪念碑位于伦敦市中心的一个显要位置，纪念澳大利亚军队在两次世界大战中与英国军队结盟的努力。在这些"捍卫自由"的战斗中，有十万澳大利亚人与英国人一起牺牲。
Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, in collaboration with artist Janet Laurence, won this project through a limited competition conducted by the Australian Government. The Memorial is located on a prominent site in central London, and commemorates the efforts of the Australian Services, allied with those of Great Britain, in the two World Wars. One hundred thousand Australians fighting were killed alongside the British during these battles ‘in defence of freedom’.
纪念碑位于海德公园角，与惠灵顿拱门和德基默斯-伯顿（Decimus Burton）设计的爱奥尼亚屏风一样，是是伦敦的一个关键节点，这两座古典的18世纪纪念碑都是用波特兰石建成。项目统一了这个关键交叉点的绿色空间，并被设计为对现有历史遗迹和场地本身的一种尊重。
The site, at Hyde Park Corner, is at the fulcrum of the ceremonial route through London and is shared with the Wellington Arch and the Ionic Screen by Decimus Burton, both classical 18th Century monuments built from Portland stone. The Australian Memorial unifies the green space at this critical intersection, and has been designed as a respectful gesture to both the existing historic monuments and the eloquent landform itself.
纪念馆的墙围住了场地内倾斜的草地圆形剧场，并创造了一个焦点空间，既可用于安静思考，也可用于重大纪念活动。弯曲的雕塑墙完全由西澳大利亚的绿色花岗岩铺设。每块石头都是在澳大利亚按照严格的公差预制的，并在很短的时间内固定在复杂的激光切割不锈钢支架上。
The wall of the Memorial encloses the site’s sloping grassed amphitheatre and creates a focal space, both for quiet reflection and for major commemorative events. The curved sculptural wall is entirely faced with green granite from Western Australia. Each stone was prefabricated to exacting tolerances in Australia and site-fixed in a very short period, to complex laser-cut stainless steel cradles.
纪念馆的图标是设计的象征意义的关键，包括两套文字的分层，大字是通过 "加粗"小字形成的，这种方法旨在强调个人与更广泛的战争和社会力量的关系。较小的字体列出了24,000个城镇，即澳大利亚男女军人的出生地。值得注意的是，这些地方很多都在英国或欧洲，而且有几个地方在大字体中重复出现。大字体中提到的地方是澳大利亚人与英国人并肩作战的47个重要战场中的一部分。
The Memorial’s iconography is key to the symbolism of the design, and comprises a layering of two sets of texts – the larger letters are formed by ‘bolding’ the smaller type, a method designed to emphasise the relationship of the individual to the wider forces of war and society. The smaller type-face lists 24,000 towns, the birthplaces of the Australian service men and women. Significantly, many of these places are in the UK or Europe, and several are repeated in the large text type. The places named in the larger text are a section of 47 significant battlegrounds where the Australians fought alongside the British.
水元素是成为项目的关键，水流在文字石墙上随机流动，象征性地刷新记忆，清洗痛苦和损失的痛苦。纪念馆的设计和建造历时不到12个月，在2003年的纪念日由女王陛下和澳大利亚及英国首相共同为其揭幕。
A major water feature was a requirement of the brief, and this has been designed as a random wash of water over successive panels of text, symbolically refreshing memories and cleansing the pain of suffering and loss. The Memorial was designed and constructed in under twelve months, and was dedicated by HM the Queen and by the Australian and British Prime Ministers on Remembrance Day, 2003.
Project: Australian War Memorial, London
Architects: Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
Client: Office of Australian War Graves – Department Of Veteran Affairs Australia
Artist: Janet Laurence.
TZG People: Peter Tonkin, Neil Mackenzie, Heidi Pronk, Scott Davis, Kon Vourtzoumis, Etai Navon.
Location: London , United Kingdom
Completion date: 2003
Photo credit: Patrick Bingham-Hall
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