When I visited Canberra, I was struck by the planning of the city and its lines. On the Open Day of Parliament House, I stood outside the PM’s office and could see right through Parliament House, out over the old Parliament House, across the lake, following the lines right to the War Memorial. From the air you can see the geometrical layout of the Parliamentary Triangle. Walter Burley Griffin designed the city so that all the important parts were lined up.
From Wikipedia: The apices of the triangle are Parliament House, the seat of government; the Defence Head Quarters at Russell; and City Hill, representing the civilian part of Canberra. Griffin planned the city around two axes which converge in the center of the Parliamentary Triangle. The land axis connects Mount Ainslie, Capital Hill and Red Hill and extends off towards Mount Bimberi the Australian Capital Territory’s highest mountain. The water axis runs at right angles to the land axis along the length of Lake Burley Griffin.
An amazing feat of design, no doubt!
Imagine now Jerusalem. What if all the significant points of interest where events happened lined up in similar ways. Not planned by a town planner, but having come to pass over thousands of years. Would that point to God, the only ‘planner’ that could have made that happen?
On Sunday we get out our maps and Google Earth and check out the lie of the land…
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