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The entry plaza and ticket box are covered by a corrugated glass canopy. Artwork: Francis Upritchard.

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 / cultural
SAM’s relatively small footprint has allowed more land on the previously degraded site to be returned to its natural state.

Bold 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 / cultural
The visitor is drawn into the Egyptian collection by the beautifully lit granodiorite head of Ramses II.

Design 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 / cultural
The gallery of Phoenix Central Park, designed by John Wardle Architects.

Stately 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
HOTA Gallery is the third realized structure in a masterplan for the Gold Coast’s cultural and landscape precinct, completed by ARM in collaboration with landscape architect Topotek 1.

‘Peak Voronoi’: HOTA Gallery

ARM Architecture, City of Gold Coast

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 / cultural
Angled handrails on the front stairs add an unlikely sense of flamboyance and reframe the building’s forecourt as a plaza that invites public gatherings.

The 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 / cultural
From the street, the connection with the arts centre foyer is strong, while the silhouetted forms visible inside the studios above are intriguing.

Complex 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 / cultural
With its cryptic facade, Phoenix both responds to its urban surrounds and conceals its interior miscellany.

Miracle 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.

Commercial
The nine-metre-high tower is clad in stained Tasmanian hardwood, coarse in texture and rich in the scent of ash and eucalypt.

Memory keeper: In Absence

Edition Office with Yhonnie Scarce

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 / cultural
The Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre, located at Gulkula in Wiwatj (North East Arnhem Land). Architecture is used by the Indigenous clients as a medium to convey oral histories and tell their story.

Revisited: Garma Cultural Knowledge Centre

Build Up Design, Klaus Helms

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 / cultural
The new work is clearly articulated off the side of a 1960s red-brick building. A fly roof and colonnade encourage occupation of the outside space.

Civic ambition: Lismore Regional Gallery

Dominic Finlay Jones Architects in Association with Phil Ward

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 / cultural
In colour, texture and form, the building appears as a geological monolith that belongs to the outback landscape.

Ode 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 / cultural
The core of the Home of the Arts (HOTA) stage and theatre spaces reside beneath a “mountain” landscape made up of succulents, rainforest species and grasses from the wider Gold Coast region.

Voronoi verve: Home of the Arts Outdoor Stage

ARM Architecture, Topotek 1, CUSP, City of Gold Coast

The Gold Coast’s new outdoor stage cleverly melds landscape and architecture to provide a flexible, functional and surprising space for future gatherings.

Landscape / urban
Beneath the roof, the woven timber structure is pulled dramatically down at two points to create a monumental and generous civic entry.

Taking flight: Bunjil Place

In referencing Bunjil the Creator, FJMT’s Bunjil Place raises ongoing questions about recognition, symbolism and community space.

Public / cultural
In the renovated Esme Cahill building, the seven flat arches of the original facade (a reference to Filippo Brunelleschi’s historic foundling hospital in Florence) have been dramatically extruded to create three-dimensional forms that define a large outdoor canopy.

Joynton 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 / cultural
The triangular site informed the Gatehouse’s wedge-shaped plan, which comprises a sheltered seating area, toilet facilities and, housed within its apex, an exhibition room.

Marking 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 / cultural
The eastern facade of the ICC Sydney Exhibition Centre fronts Tumbalong Park, its terraced landscaping disguising a major access route and loading dock.

Enriching 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 / cultural
The large shed provides expansive undercover spaces that are protected from the harsh climate, as well as flexibility of use for exhibitions and events.

Nesting 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 / cultural
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Summer Architecture Commission by John Wardle Architects activates the gallery’s under-used garden space.

NGV 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 / urban
Monument Park sits between Victoria Harbour and the new McBride Charles Ryan-designed development The Quays.

Ghost 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 / urban
The porte-cochère at the convention centre entrance provides shade and shelter for visitors and staff arriving and leaving the plaza.

The Plaza at the Brisbane Showgrounds

A generous, layered events space for the RNA Showgrounds Regeneration Project by Lat27.

Landscape / urban
The simple and elemental pavilion at Wilkinsons Point, delivered as part of Stage Two, juts out into the bay.

Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park (GASP)

Room 11 completes its award-winning work at the Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park in Tasmania.

Landscape / urban, Public / cultural
As part of arts festival True North, thirty trees were wrapped in coloured cotton rope.

Everything Except Walk

Pollen Studio’s coloured rope work ushers in the 2014 True North Reservoir Arts Festival in Melbourne.

Landscape / urban
Spaces are controlled and formal along Kendall Lane.

New Acton Precinct

Canberra’s New Acton Precinct incorporates art, retail, hospitality facilities and apartment complexes.

Landscape / urban, Residential
The Glebe Town Hall’s restored Victorian Free Classical facade.

Glebe Town Hall

After an extensive conservation program, the 130-year-old building reopened in March 2013.

Public / cultural
A view east in the foyer of the new extension to the NGA.

Extending the National Gallery of Australia

In Canberra’s centenary year, we revisit AA’s review of the NGA extension by PTW.

Public / cultural
Bars and facilities are pushed to the edge of the foyer space.

Hamer Hall

ARM’s revision of Melbourne’s monumental Hamer Hall, reviewed by Paul Walker for Artichoke.

Interiors
Hamer Hall’s riverside levels are cast as a virtual proscenium, with a casual pattern of drapery in its window shaping that seems pulled aside to reveal the life in the foyers and bars.

Hamer Hall

ARM Architecture makes a range of functional improvements to Melbourne’s Hamer Hall.

Interiors
One of the front galleries, with translucent view onto the courtyard.

MUMA: Monash University Museum of Art

Kerstin Thompson Architects’ gallery at Monash University develops a very subtle exploration of spatial experience.

Education, Public / cultural
Enter the time tunnel.

Martian Embassy, Sydney

Moby Dick meets the Time Machine at LAVA’s Martian Embassy for the Sydney Story Factory.

Education, Public / cultural