| Recipient: Australian Metal Building Award 1998, for
"excellence in design". "It is a work of art which can be enjoyed and experienced at a number of
levels - aesthetically, environmentally and culturally. [It] encompasses the migrant
experience of departure, change, weariness, and renewal and also the indigenous aboriginal
experience of loss, pride and reconciliation."
Arts 21 Magazine, Melbourne, Australia
"The
Tower is a marriage of the best of public art design and environment friendly
technology... The low voltage wind and solar power system symbolises our need to be
attentive to environmental and energy issues.
Kelly also specified the use of
environmentally benign construction methods and materials."
ReNew Magazine, Melbourne
Jan-March 1998
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Upper platform
with wind generator |
Lighting/twilight |
"Australian-American
painter and urban artist, William Kelly, has just completed a major public
commission...the four story tall structure deals with ideas of migration and
reconciliation between people of different cultural backgrounds and reconciliation with
the environmnet."
"Miscellanea" the Cultural Affairs newsletter
Embassy of Australia, Washington, DC (USA) March 1998
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| View of the "Tower" |
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For further information on the Tower and its
location visit:
http://www.parks.vic.gov.au
(Cheetham Wetlands)ReNew Magazine of the Alternative
Technology Association (in its Jan-March 1998 issue) published the article "A
monument to migration and aspirations".
Contact is - email: ata@ata.org.au |
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