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and four years after its completion, ANZAC Hall received the RAIA's Sir Zelman Cowen Award for public buildings for design excellence.

 Anzac Hall was also included as part of the Memorial's formal heritage listings and noted for its contributions to the aesthetic values of the place and, particularly through its exhibitions, its contributions to the Memorial's social significance and its connection to significant people and events in Australia's history.

 The importance of the ongoing heritage management of Anzac Hall, including its physical fabric and exhibitions, as part of the Memorial's overall heritage management responsibilities was highlighted the Memorial's Heritage Management Plan (2011).

 These heritage values, and the policy of ensuring the presentation of Anzac Hall, were discussed extensively in the context of the proposed replacement of Anzac Hall through this options assessment process. In addition to heritage matters the potential environmental costs of the replacement of a relatively 'young' public building and in terms of heritage impacts also formed part of the assessment.

 Option 1 was the only option which involved the demolition of Anzac Hall, however Option 2 would have materially impacted the architecture of Anzac Hall with connections to either side.

 Despite the options assessment highlighting the greater heritage and environmental strengths of Options 3 and 4 it was determined that Anzac Hall, designed in the 1990's to display 'Large Technology Objects' in a 'museum theatre' environment focussing on the World Wars was not well suited to being expanded or modified to meet the established need of the Memorial to better tell the history of the large number of smaller scale peacekeeping, humanitarian and conflicts Australia had been involved in since 1975.

 It was in this broader understanding of the Memorial's heritage significance as it relates to social heritage values and the connection to significant people and events in Australia's history, noting that the ongoing ability of the Memorial to tell significant stories is important, as well as its physical fabric, that the assessment concluded that Option 1, despite the replacement of Anzac Hall with a new purpose built structure, was the preferred option.

      * Risk to the Main Building Fabric

 Options 1 and 3 proposed a second entrance into the Main Building at the lower level through an existing plant room under the current entry stairs. Whilst the entry was located under the Main Building, the risk was limited there is an existing plant room which creates a structural opening supported the entry into the building. Option 3 required a link into the lower level of the Main Building

   at a number of points as well as excavation close to the Main Building along the eastern face. This was a substantial risk that was taken into consideration,