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APPROACH:
The City of Mandurah War
Memorial was a project with a long gestation
period. The City which has grown enormously
over the past ten years, began a process
of community consultation in 2003. Initially
artsource was invited to provide a visual
demonstration of war memorials and public
art projects from around the world in order
that the Advisory Committee gain an understanding
of what was possible and what processes
could be adopted for the project.
We were then requested to
take part in the community consultation
phase and prepare and artwork brief for
the project. To its credit, the City of
Mandurah had taken on board considerable
community concern, and the consultation
phase was, as a result, quite extensive.
By April, 2004 the consultation
phase was complete, a process agreed upon
and the brief ready to go to tender. The
City advertised the project through the
West Australian newspaper and artsource
and had a record call for over 80 RFT papers.
Finally 17 Expressions of Interest were
received and four artist teams were selected
to prepare a Design Concept.
The team selected to complete
the work was Hames Sharley who completed
the work in time for ANZAC Day 2005. In
2006, the Memorial was awarded the RAIA
Civic Design Award, with the
jury noting that “without hesitation”
it “concluded that the project was
of a high quality in its civic design contribution,
architectural and landscape design aspects
and of such considerable community benefit,
that an architecture award should be confirmed
upon the project”.
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