Charters Towers Miners’ Memorial Walk | i4architecture

Charters Towers Regional Council looked to create a memorial dedicated to honouring those who lost their lives in mine, mill, and quarry accidents on the Charters Towers Goldfields. The Memorial Walk provides a place of remembrance and reflection.
Shade structures along the walk are an interpretation of mining poppet heads, which littered the Charters towers landscape during the Gold rush. The highlight of the walk is a glass platform sitting over a disused mine shaft ( Wyndham No. 3) that is over 170m deep.
The poppet heads sat over the mine shafts, housing the winding mechanism that brought the ore to the surface. Our modern, contorted, rustic structures provide a physical connection between the new and the old. They are a reminder of the precarious nature of mining, not only during the gold rush, but in the present day.