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Sydney Modern Project by SANAA
Conceived a decade ago, SANAA’s design for a new wing for the Art Gallery of New South Wales gradually draws visitors down a steeply sloping site, through a series of offset pavilions and into a dramatic space inside a World War II fuel tank.
Public / culturalBold confidence: Shepparton Art Museum
With an ambition to “change agendas,” the commanding new Shepparton Art Museum in regional Victoria stands as a counterpoint to the landscape, while accommodating the natural floodway and maximizing the surrounding parkland.
Public / culturalDesign immemorial: The Nicholson Galleries, Chau Chak Wing Museum
At the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, the new Nicholson Galleries, designed by Studio Plus Three, respects and celebrates the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern Hemisphere.
Public / culturalStately pleasure dome: The interiors of Phoenix Central Park
In inner-city Sydney, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers have respectively designed a gallery and performance space, each with its own language of materials and forms, that together result in a remarkable partnership of architecture and artistic fields.
Commercial‘Peak Voronoi’: HOTA Gallery
The design for Australia’s largest regional art gallery encompasses convivial interiors to attract a broad audience, while its bold exterior repeats the motif used by ARM in previous structures for the Gold Coast’s cultural precinct.
Public / culturalThe cosmopolitan and the local: Milani Gallery and Studios
Vokes and Peters has refurbished a warehouse in Brisbane’s West End, incorporating the character of the subtropical context.
Public / culturalComplex relationships: Geelong Arts Centre
In the second stage of the rejuvenation of Geelong Arts Centre (formerly Geelong Performing Arts Centre), Hassell has inserted into the site a hovering form that incorporates not only large foyers and studios but also ancillary spaces that speak to the institution’s desire for greater accessibility and inclusivity.
Public / culturalMiracle box: Phoenix Central Park
Behind a singular brick facade, John Wardle Architects and Durbach Block Jaggers have brought into dialogue a labyrinthine gallery and a timber-lined performance space.
CommercialMemory keeper: In Absence
A collaboration between architect and artist, this poignant work in the gardens of the National Gallery of Victoria challenges the colonial legacy of art institutions, interrogating the absence of truth in the western canon and asking: how can architecture reconcile with the brutality of an unlawful and violent colonial history?
Public / culturalRevisited: Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre
In North East Arnhem Land, the realization of a cultural centre – led by the Yolngu people – sets an important precedent for the creation of sacred Indigenous architecture.
Public / culturalCivic ambition: Lismore Regional Gallery
In the regional city of Lismore, Dominic Finlay Jones Architects in association with Phil Ward has paired a modest, thoughtful intervention with community-minded thinking to design a thoroughly successful civic space.
Public / culturalOde to an anthem: Waltzing Matilda Centre
Cox Architecture’s Waltzing Matilda Centre is a tribute to the community of Winton, embedded in the rugged landscape that inspired the ballad to which it is dedicated.
Public / culturalVoronoi verve: Home of the Arts Outdoor Stage
The Gold Coast’s new outdoor stage cleverly melds landscape and architecture to provide a flexible, functional and surprising space for future gatherings.
Landscape / urbanTaking flight: Bunjil Place
In referencing Bunjil the Creator, FJMT’s Bunjil Place raises ongoing questions about recognition, symbolism and community space.
Public / culturalJoynton Avenue Creative Precinct
In this robust work of adaptive re-use, Peter Stutchbury Architecture has reached back into history to transform an ensemble of former hospital buildings in Sydney’s Green Square Town Centre into a dynamic public arts precinct.
Public / culturalMarking an entrance: Triabunna Gatehouse
Marking arrival at this post-industrial township on Tasmania’s east coast, the Triabunna Gatehouse by Gilby and Brewin Architecture is a “visual feast,” inscribed with complex narratives of a place in flux.
Public / culturalEnriching presence: ICC Sydney
The ICC Sydney complex, designed by Hassell and Populous, houses the interrelated realms of exhibition, entertainment and conference as part of the revitalization of Sydney’s Darling Harbour.
Public / culturalNesting galleries: East Pilbara Arts Centre
A new gallery for the Indigenous art collective Martumili Artists, designed by Officer Woods Architects, is proving to be an important cultural facility for the small community of Newman in Western Australia.
Public / culturalNGV Summer Architecture Commission 2015
John Wardle Architects’ design for the National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural Summer Architecture Commission nods to Melbourne’s modernist past, while also speaking to the new and emerging.
Landscape / urbanGhost town: Monument Park
Callum Morton, Oculus and McBride Charles Ryan deliver an engaging new public artwork in Melbourne’s Docklands worthy of a visit.
Landscape / urbanThe Plaza at the Brisbane Showgrounds
A generous, layered events space for the RNA Showgrounds Regeneration Project by Lat27.
Landscape / urbanGlenorchy Art and Sculpture Park (GASP)
Room 11 completes its award-winning work at the Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park in Tasmania.
Landscape / urban, Public / culturalEverything Except Walk
Pollen Studio’s coloured rope work ushers in the 2014 True North Reservoir Arts Festival in Melbourne.
Landscape / urbanNew Acton Precinct
Canberra’s New Acton Precinct incorporates art, retail, hospitality facilities and apartment complexes.
Landscape / urban, ResidentialGlebe Town Hall
After an extensive conservation program, the 130-year-old building reopened in March 2013.
Public / culturalExtending the National Gallery of Australia
In Canberra’s centenary year, we revisit AA’s review of the NGA extension by PTW.
Public / culturalHamer Hall
ARM’s revision of Melbourne’s monumental Hamer Hall, reviewed by Paul Walker for Artichoke.
InteriorsHamer Hall
ARM Architecture makes a range of functional improvements to Melbourne’s Hamer Hall.
InteriorsMUMA: Monash University Museum of Art
Kerstin Thompson Architects’ gallery at Monash University develops a very subtle exploration of spatial experience.
Education, Public / culturalMartian Embassy, Sydney
Moby Dick meets the Time Machine at LAVA’s Martian Embassy for the Sydney Story Factory.
Education, Public / cultural