G&T, WSP, Arup and Ramboll working on Fosters-designed scheme in St James’s Park
The full project team working on the national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’s Park has been revealed.
Gardiner & Theobald is running costs on the £46m job with WSP providing construction logistics advice and DP9 acting as planning consultant.
Arup is on the team as security and operations consultant, Rendel Ltd is civil engineer, Ramboll is ecology consultant and Purcell is on board as heritage consultant.
Foster + Partners was appointed lead architect on the central London scheme last year, beating a high profile shortlist of top practices including Heatherwick Studio and Wilkinson Eyre.
Fosters is also acting as structural engineer, MEP engineer, fire engineer, lighting designer, sustainability specialist and principal designer.
Approved unanimously by Westminster council earlier this month, the project will create a network of gardens running through St James’s Park linked by a new bridge crossing the park’s lake which will replace the existing 1950s Blue Bridge.
It will also include a statue of the Queen at Marlborough Gate designed by sculptor Martin Jennings, a companion statue of Prince Philip, a bust of the Queen at Birdcage Walk designed by Karen Newman and a Commonwealth sculpture by Yinka Shonibare.
Meanwhile, the government has today unveiled the first images of what the full-length bronze statues of the Queen and Prince Philip will look like when cast to mark the centenary of the late monarch’s birth.
Scale models of the statues show the Queen wrapped in ceremonial garter robes, while the statue of Prince Philip shows the Queen’s husband in naval uniform and posing with his hands behind his back.
King Charles III, Queen Camilla, other members of the royal family and Keir Starmer will view the designs and other elements of the memorial at an event at the British Museum in London later today.
Models of the permanent memorial will be displayed at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, the Millennium Centre in Cardiff and Hillsborough Castle in Northern Ireland on 24 April to allow people from across the UK to view the details.
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