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The ANZAC War Memorial, completed in 1934, is the main commemorative military monument of Sydney, Australia. Designed by C. Bruce Dellit and with its exterior adorned with monumental figural reliefs and sculptures by Rayner Hoff, it is arguably the finest Art Deco structure in Australia. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (3072x2304, 3591 KB) Summary ANZAC War Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia. ...
The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (popularly abbreviated as ANZAC) was originally an army corps of Australian and New Zealand troops who fought in World War I at Gallipoli against the Turks. ...
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Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ...
Rayner Hoff ( November 27, 1894 - November 19, 1937) Biography Detail of monumental sculptures and reliefs, ANZAC War Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney. ...
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The memorial is located at the southern extremity of Hyde Park on the eastern edge of Sydney's central business district, and it is the focus of commemoration ceremonies on ANZAC Day, Armistice Day and other important occasions. |Hyde Park A Fig-lined avenue in Hyde Park Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park, Sydney Hyde Park is a large park in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ...
ANZAC Day is commemorated by Australia and New Zealand on 25 April every year to remember members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who in the Battle of Gallipoli landed at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. ANZAC Day is also a public holiday in the...
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Design
The building is constructed of concrete, with an exterior cladding of pink granite, and consists of a massed square superstructure with typically Art Deco set-backs and buttresses, punctuated on each side by a large arched window of yellow stained glass, and crowned with a ziggurat-inspired stepped roof. It is positioned atop a cruciform pedestal within which are located administrative offices and a small museum. Close-up of granite from Yosemite National Park, valley of the Merced River Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory. ...
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The interior is largely faced in white marble, and features a domed ceiling adorned with 120,000 gold stars - one for each of New South Wales' military volunteers during World War I. Access to the main hall is provided via broad stairways on each side of the building's north-south axis, while ground-level doorways on the east and west sides offer entry to the lower section. Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State Motto(s): Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004...
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The main focus of the interior is Rayner Hoff's monumental bronze sculpture of a deceased youth, representing a soldier, held aloft on his shield by three female figures, representing his mother, sister and wife. The male figure's nudity was considered shocking at the time of the monument's opening, and it is said to be the only such representation of a naked male form within any war memorial. Two other even more controversial figural sculptures designed by Hoff - one featuring a naked female figure - were never installed on the eastern and western faces of the structure as intended, partly as a result of opposition from high ranking, reactionary local Catholic Church representatives.
The building's exterior is adorned with several bronze friezes, carved granite relief panels and twenty monumental stone figural sculptures symbolising military personnel, also by Hoff.
Immediately to the north of the ANZAC Memorial is a large rectangular "Lake of Reflections" flanked by rows of poplars. The poplars, not native to Australia, symbolise the areas of France in which Australian troops fought. Original plans called for the construction of similar pools on each of the other sides of the building, but these were never built. There is currently a proposal by the City of Sydney to complete the second Lake of Reflection in time for the 75th anniversary of the ANZAC Memorial. This article is about woody plants of the genus Populus. ...
The term ANZAC in the memorial's name is an acronym for "Australian and New Zealand Army Corps", which was the original name for the combined corps of Australian and New Zealand troops who fought in World War I. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (popularly abbreviated as ANZAC) was originally an army corps of Australian and New Zealand troops who fought in World War I at Gallipoli against the Turks. ...
Images of the Memorial Detail of monumental sculptures and reliefs Original photograph, copyright 2002 by George Cruickshank. ...
| Rayner Hoff's Sacrifice inside the memorial Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (3072x2304, 3558 KB) Summary Rayner Hoffs sculpture Sacrifice inside the ANZAC War Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia. ...
Rayner Hoff ( November 27, 1894 - November 19, 1937) Biography Detail of monumental sculptures and reliefs, ANZAC War Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney. ...
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External links - ANZAC War Memorial - Description of the memorial from the City of Sydney website. (Last accessed Oct 29, 2005)
- ANZAC Memorial - A site that features a good aerial photograph of the memorial and its immediate surrounds.
- Peace Offering that Shocked the Church - A newspaper article that discusses the controversy surrounding the never-installed sculptures Rayner Hoff designed for the ANZAC Memorial.
- [1] Information on a proposal by the City of Sydney to install the second pond of reflection on the southern side of the memorial as originally intended.
- [2] - Further information related to the Art Deco design of the memorial.
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References - Bayer, Patricia, Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail fro the Twenties and Thirties, Thames & Hudson, London, 1992
- Edwards, Deborah, This Vital Flesh: The Sculpture of Rayner Hoff and His School, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999
- Hedger, Michael, Public Sculpture in Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, NSW, 1995
- Inglis, K.S., Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1998
- Sturgeon, Graeme, The Development of Australian Sculpture: 1788 - 1975, Thames & Hudson, London, 1978
- Van Daele, Patrick and Roy Lumly, A Spirit of Progress: Art Deco Architecture in Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, NSW, 1997
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