From: "Gosia Rzepczynska" To: < Subject: BMG Update from the President Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:14:22 +0000 Importance: Normal TO: Friends of the British Memorial Garden FROM: Camilla G. Hellman DATE: 24 March 2003 We have all been working for many weeks in different ways to achieve liftoff for the British Memorial Garden (BMG) in New York and I thought this was a good time to update everyone on what has happened so far and what is coming up. March 27th : Date for Landscape Architect Design Selection Starting at 10 AM on Thursday 27 March we shall reach a milestone: that is when a judging panel will select the landscape architect and the designs for the future BMG. This will happen at India House. The six shortlisted architects are all British and extremely distinguished. Three are coming to New York to personally present their ideas: Arne Maynard, Christopher Bradley-Hole and Land Use Consultants. Three others will be available by telephone to answer questions from the panel: Bannermans, Colvin & Moggridge, and the English School of Gardening. Thank You I want to thank you all for helping to bring this about. A lot of effort was necessary to get us to where we are and we can all take pride in what we have achieved. At this stage First, Rodney Johnson has been closely involved in the process and I am very grateful for his advice and input. I also want to note John Kinnear's contribution in helping to identify architects, draw up the brief, advocate with the city and lend his architectural experience. He gave the BMG a professionalism which, in turn, gave it credibility with the architects that responded. BMG Web Site A very attractive web site has been designed and constructed for the Garden. Please see for yourselves at wv.w.britishmemorialgarden.org. For this we are indebted to Mark Beaumont's excellent skills and design sense. The Art Symbol The week of 24 March will also see the brief for the BMG Art Symbol going out to an invited gro