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"The strength of the work lies in Helen's ability to play on the existing ambiguities of the landscape and align them to the process of grieving which has both a public and a private face. The resolved proposals are.....both reassuringly predictable and knowingly surprising." Christian Frost / Rod Heyes Landscapes of MemoryPart disused landfill site, part former sewage works, a haphazard pocket of open space forming part of the London Development Agency’s ‘East London Green Grid’ is transformed by the placement of a crematorium, columbarium and cemetery into a public space. The setting for these new proposals articulates a journey taking the visitor from grief through to reconciliation, revealing the landscape as a place where the dead can linger in the minds of the living amidst the meadows of a fertile yet previously severed piece of river valley that once again becomes responsive to the ebb and flow of the seasons....... To read more download the text document below
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