Thursday 17 September 2015

Monday 29 June 2015

A location proposal for the winning arch design

Dear Valerie and Peter,

We wondered if it might be fun to speculate on where the arch might go …in order to promote the WCCA and its members work and future involvement in the built environment.

How about the Queen Elizabeth Olympic park: a focal point or new entrance?

Certainly the peace garden and vantage point might be a spectacular addition to the park.

Yours sincerely,
CHRIS DYSON ARCHITECT
RIAS, RIBA, FRSA
Principal Partner of
CHRIS DYSON ARCHITECTS LLP
chris.dyson@chrisdyson.co.uk

An overview of the Olympic Park

Tuesday 16 June 2015

Competition results

The winner

The 'runner up'

A Triumphal Arch designed by Chris Dyson, Tom Atkinson and Petra Topsy Kustrin of Chris Dyson Architects has won the ideas competition organised by the WCCA.

The competition celebrates The Queen’s service as Britain's longest reigning monarch. On 9th September 2015 she will overtake Queen Victoria who reigned for a total of 63 years, seven months and two days. 

The roof deck of the winning arch is a viewing platform and raised peace garden. Engraved inscriptions on the floor beneath the arch celebrate the important events in The Queen's life and reign. 

The runner up was Leon Fenster with a design formed of 173 interlocking canopies, one for each of the Queen's commonwealth visits since 1952. 

A framed drawing of the winning design will be presented toThe Queen by Geoffrey Purves the Master of the Architects’ Company in September. The winner and runners up will be recognised at a Livery Banquet held at Drapers Hall on 17 June 2015 organised in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Commonwealth Association of Architects. 

The competition was organised by Assistant Valerie Owen.

Sunday 22 March 2015

A few famous arches...

'The Marble Arch' by Nash in front of old pre-Aston-Webb Buck House, before its relocation

Wellington's Arch, London

Napoléon Bonaparte's Arch, Paris

The arch of Septimus Severus, Rome

The arch of Constantine, Rome