DONALD INSALL ASSOCIATES - JOINT PROJECT WINNER
About the team
London-based architects Donald Insall Associates have almost 50 years' experience in caring for historic buildings and towns, and the design of new buildings in historic areas.
Clients include private owners, estates, trusts, universities, schools, hospitals, churches, museums, hotels, developers, local authorities and central government.
Donald Insall Associates have collaborated on a number of previous projects with sculptors Philip Jackson and Paul Day.
Philip Jackson MA FRBS FRSA lives and works in West Sussex. Recent work has included a sculpture of Bobby Moore for the front of the new Wembley Stadium, an equestrian sculpture of The Queen for Windsor Great Park (unveiled by The Queen in 2003), and a sculpture of King George VI for Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (unveiled in 2002).
Sculptor Paul Day's commissions have included work for numerous private clients, and most recently the Battle of Britain Monument on the Embankment in Westminster.
Web site: www.donaldinsallassociates.co.uk.
Statement of approach to the project
The team proposed to rework the whole of the site within the boundaries, including the steps, landings, retaining walls and upper terrace, as a memorial to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
A new Portland stone plinth would be designed to take the existing statue of King George VI as well as a new bronze statue of Queen Elizabeth created by Philip Jackson, set forward from the existing statue and plinth and placed on the central axis of the upper terrace.
Bronze plaques by Paul Day would be incorporated representing key moments in the lives of the King and Queen, and later, the life of Queen Elizabeth as Queen Mother.
Relevant past projects and experience
* Trafalgar Square, London: refurbishment and lighting.
Work included re-lighting Nelson's Column and designing new lighting bollards and lamp standards to match existing nineteenth-century models.
* The Young Mozart statue, plinth and setting, Ebury Street, London
A classically moulded Portland stone plinth and setting were designed for Philip Jackson's sculpture of the young composer, who once lodged in Ebury Street.
* Raoul Wallenberg memorial and setting, Great Cumberland Place, London
Donald Insall Associates designed the setting and lighting for Philip Jackson's sculpture of the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from Nazi concentration camps.
* The In-Pensioner statue at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London
Intended to commemorate the Millennium, the statue of a Chelsea Pensioner was designed by Philip Jackson and set on a Portland stone base designed by Donald Insall Associates.
* The Battle of Britain Monument, Embankment, London
Bronze reliefs designed by Paul Day are displayed on either side of a walkway cut obliquely through a 25m granite structure on the Victoria Embankment. Bronze plaques with the airmen's names and squadron badges surround the monument.
* The Animals in War memorial, Park Lane, London
The memorial, commissioned for the Animals in War Memorial Fund, is positioned in the middle of the busy thoroughfare of Park Lane.
