Savage Memorial (Auckland, NZ) | monument

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Located at Auckland's Bastion Point, the memorial to Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand's first Labour prime minister (1935-1940) overlooks the Waitemata Harbour. Like the Massey Memorial in Wellington, it is built on the site of a former gun emplacement dating from the 'Russian Scare' of the 1880s.
Following the death of the Prime Minister, M.J. Savage, Donner and Antony Bartlett won a nationwide competition for his memorial. They had been students together at university and Donner’s exceptional presentation skills are clearly evident in their submission. Their design included an 18m-high stone pylon with a statue of a worker facing inland as well as reflecting pools, hedges and flower beds. This design was modified so that a fluted concrete column surmounted by a stainless steel brazier replaced the pylon and statue. Sculptor Richard Gross and architect Horace Massey were consulted on the final design, which was built by Fletchers.