Bridge Of Remembrance | Walking Tour

BOOKINGS OPEN AT 12 PM ON FRIDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2024

Architects: Denton Corker Marshall Architects (2019)

The Bridge of Remembrance in Hobart links two of the city’s most significant public spaces – the Cenotaph and Soldiers Memorial Avenue on the Queens Domain. The design is respectful to the sensitive cultural heritage and environmental values of the site. It is elegant and restrained while being open to multiple interpretations, providing the space, physically and mentally, for people to pause and reflect. An elegant, twisting plane, the 200-metre-long bridge connects both sides of the broad highway entering Hobart, providing a distinctive entry portal to the city. The four-metre-wide bridge emerges from the ground as an angular shard of metal, forming the vertical retaining wall at the base of the ramp. The plane slowly leans back, momentarily reaching a horizontal position at the end of Anzac Parade, before continuing to twist and slowly rising to near vertical as it terminates on the western side. This project was awarded the Dirk Bolt Award for Urban Design in the 2020 Tasmanian Architecture Awards. Join us and Neil Bourne, the Bridge of Remembrance lead architect from Denton Corker Mashall and Qian Pei Choi, City of Hobart’s Principal Advisor, Design and Project Coordination as they discuss the design and construction process of this amazing structure.

Tours: Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 November 2024, 10am, 10:30am, 11am, 11:30am

Duration: 20minutes