The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. Set amid the maples, cherries and elms of the West Potomac Park in Washington, DC, here is a complex that might really be called an architecture of peace. Are there other recent projects like it?

Reconciliation Place, located in the democratic and cultural heart of Canberra, Australia, is a prominent symbol of Reconciliation and its national significance. It forms a pathway linking the High Court of Australia and the National Library of Australia. As its growing number of artworks testifies, it also gives chief place to the world view of Australia’s Aboriginal peoples and so in one important sense embodies an architecture of the oppressed and liberated