1916 – Lady Lever Memorial Church, Port Sunlight, Cheshire
Perspective view, plan & section published in The Building News, December 13th 1916.
Perspective view, plan & section published in The Building News, December 13th 1916.
A monument entitled to Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoia, first king of unified Italy. Designed by Giuseppe Sacconi in 1885 and was completed in 1935 under the fascist regieme.
Unconstructed design for a memorial for Thomas Davis in St. Stephen’s Green in the centre of Dublin.
A tapering granite obelisk 18.3 metres in height and topped with a gilt bronze flame,
The 109m tower, designed by a team of architects led by Enrique Luis Varela, is in the form of a five-pointed star,
The Padrao dos Descobrimentos was completed as a model for the Portuguese world exhibition and erected on the bank of the Tagus in its current form in 1960.
If you wanted to trace the formal history of the British public memorial from Victorian times to the present day, London’s Kensington Gardens would be a good place to start.