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plan form some 20 metres behind the main building provided space and retained the view of the original building 'in the round', as originally intended by Sodersteen and Crust. The hall sits unobtrusively behind the iconic main building. The fan shaped bulk of the building was excavated in the hillside, so that it would have the minimum impact on views from Anzac Parade, with a large curved metal roof fanning out from the centre point of a dome behind the wall. A simple steel/glass bridge link joins the existing building to the new hall.
The stone, concrete, metal and glass of the new hall enable the new forms to 'meld' appropriately with the heritage values of the main building and its landscape setting. In 2005, ANZAC Hall received the RAIA's Sir Zelman Cowen Award for public buildings for its design excellence (Architecture Australia 2005: 56-61).

C E W Bean Building

The building, designed by Denton Corker Marshall Architects, was completed in March 2006. The design, the location and external finishes are compatible with other AWM buildings. The building comprises a simple masonry flat roofed block embedded into the landscape behind a stone embankment. It is situated to the east of the AWM and is connected to it by an underground tunnel. Due to the topography, most of the lower storey is below ground level. The building's parapet height aligns with the main mid level parapet of the AWM building. It is set back nine metres from the existing road kerb adjacent to the stone embankment. The building houses paper based collections, facilities for the photographic laboratories, a workshop and staff. The tunnel allows for the safe movement of collections.

Landscape setting
The open landscape surrounding the main building and the natural landscape of the Mount Ainslie backdrop are important features of the complex. Eucalypts and wattles are planted to the east of the building, giving an appearance of an extension of the natural vegetation of Mount Ainslie as proposed in the 1952 plans. To the west of the building are mixed exotic plantings of deciduous and coniferous trees including the Lone Pine (Ratcliffe 1993). The Lone

Pine tree was planted by the Duke of Gloucester in 1934 in memory of all sons who died in the Lone Pine attack in Gallipoli (1915). An Australian soldier who took part in the campaign in which his brother was killed, collected seed from one of the branches of an Aleppo pine used by the Turks as overhead cover for their trenches. His mother raised a tree from the seed and presented it to the AWM (Pearson & Crocket 1995: 44).

The ceremonial landscape immediately in front of the main building takes the form