Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretonneux
Sir John Monash Centre, Villers-Bretonneux Architecture, French Memorial Museum, Photographs, Design
Sir John Monash Centre in Villers-Bretonneux
Memorial Museum Building in France – design by Cox Architecture
27 Apr 2018
Sir John Monash Centre
Design: Cox Architecture with Williams, Abrahams, Lampros
Location: Villers-Bretonneux, France
Sir John Monash Centre
To the east of the 1938 Edwin Lutyens-designed memorial to the Australians who fell in the nearby fields during World War I, a new feature has been added.
photo © Tim D Williams
On Wednesday 25th of April 2018, ANZAC day, the Australian Government opened the new immersive museum experience, the Sir John Monash Centre. This new facility is sensitively arranged and complements, in terms of both its form and function, the existing Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux in France. It is designed by Cox Architecture with Williams, Abrahams, Lampros.
A primary objective for the design is the way in which it complements Lutyens? unifying geometry. Cox Director Joe Agius explains that ??the design of the centre is carefully placed ?within? the overarching site geometry as set out by Edwin Lutyens in the original memorial design, this geometry dictates the placement of the building and its proportioning.? The intervention in and around the site respects and enhances the landscape values of the site, by remaining below the height of the Wall of the Memorial and below the natural ground level for the anc...
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