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Transforming Art Gallery of New South Wales, this will officially open to the public on Saturday 3 December 2022.
First images and the inaugural program of Japanese architects’ Pritzker Prize-winning SANAA – Modern Sydney project have been revealed.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has also announced an extensive opening programme,
ahead of its opening, along with the first images.
Which will display the work of more than 900 Australian and international artists from around the world,
and will open across the campus of the new Art Museum.
Works by Adrián Villar Rojas, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Mingwei, Francis Uprichard,
Lisa Reihana, and Jonathan Jones.
These are the nine new main commissions for the site, which will open in mid-2023.
Design features
The SANAA project, made up of cascading pavilion-like buildings,
has been completed as the most important cultural development overlooking Sydney Harbour.
The Sydney Modern project is “the city’s largest cultural development” since the Sydney Opera House,
designed by Jorn Utzon in 1973.
The major transformation, doubling the exhibition space of the Art Gallery,
has led to the creation of a new Art Museum Campus.
This is done by designing two buildings connected to a public art garden next to the current building,
which dates back to the late nineteenth century.
The new exhibition spaces also promote new ways of thinking and new forms of art:
they include The Tank, an adaptive reuse of a former World War II fuel bunker, measuring 2,200 square meters.
And a 1,100-square-meter column-free gallery for contemporary art, and a gallery for time-based art.
Design components
The project cost $344 million and consists of a series of interlocking pavilions that descend gently towards Sydney Harbour.
The pavilions are located low and light on the site, following the natural terrain of the land.
While the Art Museum buildings are envisioned as new urban spaces and natural elements,
they were designed by the famous American architect Katherine Gustafson.
The comprehensive complex offers new, free-access open-air art experiences in one of the world’s most beautiful cultural regions.
Australian Landscape Architects McGregor Koxall and Landscape Architect Kathryn Gustafson did it with Seattle firm Gustafson Guthrie-Nichol (GGN).
Designs landscapes and civic spaces for campuses.
Architectus based in Australia and New Zealand served as executive architect on the project.
It blends in with its surroundings
It has been an incredible honor to design such an important public building in Sydney,
working closely with the Art Gallery of New South Wales team.
They aimed to design an art museum building in harmony with its surroundings,
a building that breathes with the city, the park and the harbour.
They also want it to be a special place where visitors feel connected to the art wherever they are in this beautiful setting.
While the design features much-needed exhibition space,
by respecting and enhancing the public use of the surrounding landscape.
The project also preserves and celebrates important trees and improves access to Sydney’s eastern cultural district.
Design form
The new building houses research and art education spaces, multi-purpose spaces,
as well as a gallery shop, food and beverage facilities, and visitor amenities.
Additional architectural features include three limestone-clad artistic pavilions that descend gently towards the harbor.
and a 250m earthen wall on two levels made from materials sourced across New South Wales and an atrium,
double-height in the center of the building reaching over 11m at the highest point.
NSW has confirmed that the studio uses s from the local Sydney area
and case and sand have been pressed to create the steel structure.
This is to create a dramatic curve, lending an organic feel to
the new building that reflects the original topography of the site and returns to the original sandstone façade.
The exterior facade materials are made of glass for the public spaces and limestone for the art pavilions,
clad with more than 50,000 hand-cut and hand-laid limestone blocks.
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