Architecture

This new partnership sees Gubi appoint Cult as the exclusive vendor of the complete Gubi collection of furniture and lighting in three core markets in the Asia-Pacific region. All Gubi commercial trade sales, including business with architects, designers and specifiers, is now exclusively managed by Cult in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Cult has distributed […] More

The Benalla Rural City Council has appointed Williams Boag Architects to lead the Benalla Art Gallery redevelopment. In March 2022, the council announced it was accepting tenders for the redevelopment, which would enhance the functionality and design of the gallery entry, staff and back-of-house spaces, and the onsite cafe. Williams Boag Architects was awarded the […] More

Architect and urban planner HY William Chan has been elected as chair of the City of Sydney’s Local Pedestrian, Cycling and Traffic Committee and deputy chair of the Transport, Heritage, Environment and Planning Committee. Chan was elected to the council in 2021 as a member of lord mayor Clore Moore’s independent team. He is an […] More

Rothelowman has designed a 20-storey tower in Brisbane’s Kangaroo Point. Developer Aria has lodged a development application for the site at 58-62 Leopard Street, stating the proposed multiresedential building could act as a catalyst for future development in the precinct. The proposed building features a distinctive painted art crown planned for the rooftop soffits. The […] More

Group GSA has delivered a cluster of integrated housing developments that combine affordable build-to-sell apartments alongside social housing. Located in western Sydney – a region identified by housing provider Anglicare as in urgent need of social and afordable housing – development comprises three sites at Mount Druitt, Fairfield and Liverpool. The social housing element of […] More

Works are underway to transform the Central Goldfields Art Gallery in Victoria’s Maryborough, designed by Nervegna Reed Architecture. Originally established in 1996, the gallery occupies the town’s iconic 161-year-old fire station. The refurbished interior will have a new floor plan that will make use of the building’s natural assets, such as the original 19th century […] More

The New South Wales government has marked a date to open doors to the Art Gallery of New South Wales expansion project, also known as the Sydney Modern.
Premier Dominic Perrottet announced on 26 April that after several years in the pipeline, an official opening has been scheduled to take place on 3 December 2022.
“This is a major investment in art, artists and culture, and sends a strong signal of confidence for a vibrant and exciting future,” Premier Perrottet said of the $344 million expansion.
Pritzker Prize laureates Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, of Japanese practice SANAA, were announced the winners of the international design competition for the expansion in 2015. Architectus is the executive architect for the project.
Construction began on the expansion in November 2019 that would double the exhibition footprint of the gallery and make use of the space to the north of the original building.
“A new standalone building, public art garden and revitalized historic building will bring together art, architecture and landscape in spectacular new ways, with dynamic galleries, site-specific works by leading Australian and international artists, and extensive outdoor spaces for everyone to enjoy,” said the Art Gallery of NSW.
Sejima and Nishizawa designed the modern wing as a lightweight matrix of pavilion-like structures that respond to the site’s natural topography.
The interlocking steel-framed pavilions sink into the landscape and integrate the land bridge over the freeway below and the subterranean heritage structures.
The Sydney Modern wing will be home to a permanent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander gallery, and museum curators have already commissioned nine original artworks of which more than half are by female artists and three by Indigenous artists.

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A decommissioned World War II naval fuel bunker will be repurposed as an immersive underground art space for special commissions and performances, designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Image:

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A decommissioned World War II naval fuel bunker will be repurposed and reimagined as an immersive underground art space for special commissions and performances.
Alongside the new building by SANAA and Architectus, local architecture practice Tonkin Zulaikha Greer has been engaged to restore and revitalize a series of spaces in the 150-year-old gallery as part of the project.
The Sydney Modern is poised to be one of the most ambitious cultural landmarks since the opening of the Sydney Operah House almost 50 years ago. More