Result of Designs Competition The Shanghai War Volunteer Memorial Committee met in the Municipal Council room on Saturday to receive the report of the advisory committee of architects—Messrs. J. Halse, R. C. Turner, and H. Boissezon—in connexion with the competition for a memorial design. Four sets of drawings were submitted, and one set of models, and the committee unanimously adopted the architects' recommendation that the awards be made as follow:
First prize, Tls. 750, Messrs. Stewardson & Spence.
Second prize, Tls. 500, Messrs, Graham Browne & Wingrove.
Third prize, Tis, 250, Mr. A. Llewellyn Taylor (Messrs. Arts Crafts, Ld.).
A public exhibition of the designs will be arranged in the course of a few days.
The winning design takes the form of a massive granite pedestal some 40 ft. high, supporting a bronze statuary group representing victorious Peace offering consolation to the widows and orPhans; with other decoration, and appropriate inscrip. tion (which will be in Latin), with space for the Roll of Honour.
The monument rests upon a raised paved platform covering the greater part of the space available, and this ig surrounded by a balustrade of solid design and platform approached by a flight of six broad, shallow steps, of the maximum length obtainable, a feature which always gives dignity to such a monument, In order to make the most of the space obtainable and also to form an impressive bastion of support viewed from the river, it is suggested that the East face of the balustraded enclosure be carried out some feet over the sloping bund face, a feature which might be still further developed with a broad segmental bulge, which would emphasize and strengthen the podium to a greater degree from the water front and give greater space round the base of the monument. The material suggested "is Honan or Hongkong granite, with paving design delineated in the two materials which are of lighter and darker shades of grey. The figures would be in bronze, and would be modelled in Europe.
The cost of this memorial, depending very largely upon the price of bronze, is only approximately given, and as the emblematical. figures suggested by the designers may have to be modified, an estimate will not be announced until the matter has been further considered.
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