Submitted by:
Jacky Bowring
Team members:
Peter England, RIchard Weller, Vladimir Sitta
Canterbury, New Zealand

About the designers:
Bowring teaches in the Landscape Architecture Group at Lincoln University, New Zealand and is co-editor of the academic journal Landscape Review.
England has degrees in landscape architecture and set design and received an award for his work on the 2000 Sydney Olympics opening ceremony.
Weller is discipline chair and professor of landscape architecture at the University of Western Australia.
Sitta is a recipient of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects President's Medal for Lifetime Achievement.

About the design:
The memorial uses Black Box Flight Recorders as the base of its design. The memorial would include 184 "Life Recorders." The recorders are simple prefabricated concrete forms extruded from and pushed into a dark plaza. Each is designed to contain a well of calm water. Set underwater on the base of each recorder is a mirror encased in thick safety glass. Victim's names and other symbolism can be etched into the mirror. At night, shifting grades of lighting project from under the two-way mirror.

             

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