The city planning follows the "garden city" model and was designed by the Chicago landscape architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney Griffin. An axis connects the Australian War Memorial with the Parliament House, with a series of framed view visually reinforcing the axis.
The visual axis connecting the War Memorial with the Parliament House
The National Museum of Australia, in opposition of the geometric rigor of the Parliament House and urban planning presents a chaotic, disorganized yet vibrant organic free form arrangements
The Black Mountain Tower