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Lima O\u2019Connor Architects<\/p>\n
RAF Benevolent Fund<\/p>\n
S McConnell and Sons<\/p>\n
2012<\/p>\n
Jordans Basebed & Jordans Whitbed<\/p>\n
War Memorial<\/p>\n
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The new monument based in London\u2019\u0080\u0099s Green Park will commemorate the 55,573 crew members of the RAF\u2019s Bomber Command who were killed between 1939 and 1945.<\/p>\n
The memorial, which was completed in 2012 ahead of the Queen\u2019s Jubilee celebrations, was designed by Architect Liam O\u2019Connor, who is best known for the Armed Forces Memorial in Staffordshire.<\/p>\n
The sculpture is set on a 1.5m black basalt plinth. The height of the plinth and the scale of the sculpture as a whole means that visitors will always see the profile of the figure against the sky above them, day and night \u2013 thus rendering that section of the sky powerfully symbolic for the memorial.<\/p>\n
This project involved quarrying and mining some of the largest stones ever extracted from Portland \u2013 the memorial incorporates 77m\u00b3 of Jordan\u2019s Whitbed, used for plint courses, curved benches and the stonework above the architrave blausters and copings, and 288m\u00b3 of Jordan\u2019s Basebed in the two main sections of the structure and colonnades.<\/p>\n
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Architect\/Designer: Lima O\u2019Connor Architects Client: RAF Benevolent Fund Main Contractor: S McConnell and Sons Completion Date: 2012 Portland Stone: Jordans Basebed & Jordans Whitbed Scope of Project: War Memorial The new monument based in London\u2019\u0080\u0099s Green Park will commemorate the 55,573 crew members of the RAF\u2019s Bomber Command who were killed between 1939 and 1945. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project_category":[10],"project_tag":[],"class_list":["post-201961","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project_category-uk-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonstone.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/201961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonstone.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonstone.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonstone.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonstone.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201961"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/londonstone.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/201961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202373,"href":"https:\/\/londonstone.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/project\/201961\/revisions\/202373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonstone.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londonstone.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonstone.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproject_category&post=201961"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londonstone.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproject_tag&post=201961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}