Passchendaele Memorial Garden

To commemorate the centennial of Passchendaele, one of the most significant battles of World War I, the Passchendaele Memorial Museum, just outside Ypres, commissioned poppy-shaped memorial gardens from seven countries, including New Zealand.
Boffa Miskell’s design proposal was selected as the winning entry in an invited competition run by the New Zealand-based Passchendaele Society.
The design expresses a uniquely New Zealand aesthetic in the Passchendaele location. An essential element was to bring as many elements as possible from New Zealand – particularly the aggregate and the stone, as those truly are ‘of the earth’. This memorial, quite literally, is a part of Aotearoa brought to Passchendaele.
The museum’s design brief required where each memorial responds to three themes: remembrance through plant symbolism, remembrance through visual art and remembrance through literature. These themes are treated as discrete design elements within the individual petals and throughout the whole poppy installation, as a way to unify the space as a single installation, exhibit and experience
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- Gary McShane
- Rob Walsham, Envivo
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Boffa Miskell is a leading New Zealand design, environmental, and planning consultancy with offices in Whangarei, Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Queenstown, Dunedin.
We work with a wide range of local and international private and public sector clients in the areas of planning, urban design, landscape architecture, landscape planning, ecology, biosecurity, cultural heritage, graphics and mapping.
Over the past five decades we have built a reputation for professionalism, innovation and excellence. During this time we have been associated with a significant number of projects that have led changes in shaping New Zealand’s environment.
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