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of Campbell and Reid.  Together with the central paved spaces, roads, paths and walls contribute to a hard edge treatment softened only by the grass verges and the flanking tree plantations.  Another important quality is the rising ground from Constitution Avenue up towards the Australian War Memorial and Mount Ainslie.

The landscape character is derived from the composition and perceptual experience of different landscape types.  The landscape types include the following.

    Landform (i) Mounding
           (ii) Terracing
           (iii) Gentle Slopes
    Design  (i) Symmetry
           (ii) Repetition
           (iii) Order
           (iv) Colour
    Built Form (i) Walls
           (ii) Ramp
           (iii) Roads
           (iv) Structures
           (v) Hard pavement
           (vi) Memorials
           (vii) Flagpoles
    Vegetation (i) Grassland
           (ii) Mass planting: Trees, shrubs and grasses

Anzac Parade is a product of the 1960s development by the then National Capital Development Commission and remains intact despite the introduction of various memorials regularly spaced along its length.  While memorials were originally allowed for in the design, there were not as many, and they were not originally intended to be as expressive and visually obvious – some have been located slightly out of the tree line into the Parade itself.

Visual and spatial structure

The physical definition of the Land Axis corridor has been primarily through a central, built and paved space defined by rows of trees of an essentially uniform height, colour and texture, with the suburbs extending beyond.

The Australian War Memorial complex creates a focal landscape to the northeast with Mount Ainslie clad with indigenous vegetation as a backdrop.  To the southwest, the Rond Point wall, Commonwealth Place walls, Old Parliament House and the new Parliament House align as a series of focal landscapes, with Red Hill acting as a backdrop.

The red gravel pavement, irrigated grassland (which provides a dramatic contrast with the gravel), the eucalyptus trees and the flagpoles (outside the study area) serve to unify Anzac Parade with the Australian War Memorial forecourt.

The use of eucalyptus trees also defines the central space of the Land Axis and links visually into the landscape setting on both sides of the lake's Central Basin, as well as extending to the indigenous vegetation of both Mount Ainslie and Red Hill in the background settings.

The experiential qualities of the place change as one moves from the centreline of the Land Axis with its long vistas either way, to the sides along footpaths broken by outdoor 'rooms' with or without memorials, and to within the treed area with relative intimateness and dryland grasses underfoot contrasting with the irrigated lawn areas at the road verges.

The design intention is not to parade along the middle but along the sides so as to encounter the memorials.  This leaves the centre comparatively visually free,