Australia’s Astonishing New Sydney Modern Project

By Everett Potter
Visitors to Sydney are suitably wowed when encountering the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Now they have a third structure to add to that shortlist of the city’s significant architectural achievements.
The Sydney Modern Project at the Art Gallery of New South Wales is an astonishing building, multi-leveled, much of it featuring walls of soaring glass, with views over Sydney Harbor and exhibition spaces for both large-scale and intimate works of art. Designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Tokyo-based firm SANAA, the AU$344 million ($246 million) building opened on December 3, 2022. It’s easily the most significant cultural development in the city since the opening of the Sydney Opera House nearly half a century ago.

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