By the time the battlefields of Belgium fell silent in 1918, the landscapes were unrecognisable. Instead of wheat and potatoes, the land offered up a crop of bodies – in the Ypres area alone, there were nearly 200,000.
Te Paerangi Ataata - Sky Song has been chosen as the design for New Zealand’s first national memorial to those who died in the Erebus disaster. Designed by Wellington firm Studio Pacific Architecture, it will be installed in Dove-Myer Robinson Park overlooking the Taurarua Judge’s Bay in Parnell, Auckland.
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The Government is today expected to announce a shortlist of designs for the National Erebus Memorial.
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Back in August (2018) we brought you the story of Rangimarie, the planned New Zealand peace garden in the French town of Le Quesnoy, which was being built for the Armistice Day centenary commemorations this weekend. The team behind the project was calling for donations to help make the garden a reality.
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This weekend (11 November 2018) we mark the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Armistice and the end of World War One. One of the key memorials is a moving installation at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. There stands a field of 18,277 white crosses named for each New Zealander who died in the war.
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