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Opening of the modern Sydney project designed by SANAA,
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has released details of the “Modern Sydney Project” designed by SANAA.
This will transform the Art Gallery of New South Wales into a new cultural development in Sydney Harbour, Australia.
Design Features
The A$344 million ‘Modern Sydney’ project will open on Saturday 3 December 2022.
The project is located in a wonderful location overlooking Sydney Harbour,
and will be the new expansion of the Art Gallery, one of Australia’s preeminent cultural institutions.
The modern Sydney project, Australia, is the first project of the Pritzker Prize-winning practice of SANAA Architects,
led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.
The new expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales is the largest cultural development in the city to open after the Yorn Utzon designed Sydney Opera House in 1973.
SANAA’s transformation will create a new art museum campus,
by designing two buildings connected to a public art park adjacent to the existing gallery.
Project contents
The modern Sydney project will feature teaching studios,
a private multimedia studio and a rooftop art terrace overlooking the city’s Sydney Harbour.
The main features of the expansion will be the exceptional displays of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art which will be displayed in a dedicated gallery.
It is the first that visitors encounter at the entrance level of the new building,
as well as across the entire expanded campus.
SANAA will nearly double the exhibition space with the modern Sydney project,
including a stunning new building designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa with Australian practice.
Architectus will also work in Australia and New Zealand as the executive engineer on the project.
Australian architects, Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, will lead the revitalization of the historic building,
including the complete reinstallation of the ensemble.
It includes extensive outdoor art experiments,
and a series of major art commissions across campus by leading international and Australian artists.
SANAA will also create a series of artistic pavilions that are light,
transparent and open to its perimeter, scaling towards the port, in response to the site’s topography.
The new building expands the official exhibition area from 9,000 square meters to 16,000 square meters.
While it will contain galleries specifically designed to accommodate 21st century art,
as well as private installations in public spaces.
The project also includes a vast underground art space, which has been repurposed from a decommissioned World War II offshore oil tank.
Project information
The Art Museum will cover an area of 2,200 square meters,
and will have 7-meter ceilings for special commissions and performances.
Acclaimed landscape architect Catherine Gustafso will lead the design of the landscape and civic spaces for the expanded campus,
with Seattle Gustafson Guthrie Nicholl, and Australian landscape architect MacGregor Coxall.
All eyes will be on Sydney when the new building opens onto the magnificent site of Gadigal Country,
overlooking Sydney Harbour.
The new Museum of Art campus combines art, architecture and landscape in stunning new ways,
providing visitors with possible artistic and cultural experiences.
The Australian Art Gallery, at the Art Gallery,
is among the best and most popular collections of art anywhere else since its founding.
Art Gallery brought together and worked with artists from Australia and around the world at the time,
and the Art Gallery maintains the New South Wales state art collection.
It comprises more than 36,000 objects, including more than 2,000 historical and contemporary works of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, acquired over a 74-year period.
The Art Gallery also houses large collections of Asian and European art and presents major national and international exhibitions.
The Art Gallery has risen over a$100 million from private donors to support this once-in-a-generation cultural investment.
This is in addition to NSW State Government funding of a$244 million,
and SANAA won an international competition in May 2015, to expand Art Gallery of New South Wales.
SANAA revealed new images of the Art Gallery of New South Wales expansion in 2017,
and the company also shared a set of revised images in 2020.
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