New images have been released of the currently-under-construction Sydney Modern Project of SANAA, the joint practice of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. This is the Japanese firm's first work in Australia and completion is programmed for 2022. The f
Surrounded by high-rises and residential blocks with shops in the lower podium, the project is conceived as a hub centralizing the circulations in the busy area of Darling Harbor, in Sydney. The cylindrical form addresses the need to create an urban
The London firm Zaha Hadid Architects and Sydney-based Cox Architecture have together won the competition for the new Western Sydney Airport (WSA) in Parkland City, part of the coastal metropolis’s western expansion. It is to be named after the Austr
In 1957, when he was 38 years old, Utzon won the competition to build the Sydney Opera House at Bennelong Point, a small cape located at the center of the Bay, between the interior port and the coast. It was a moment of change in Australia, an optimi
On a busy crossing, a series of roofs of different sizes adapt to the natural contours of the terrain and extend the Art Gallery of New South Wales, respecting the views and the existing trees while connecting the whole area via a large plaza. Betwe
Since the design of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, the practice has continued to redefine the nature of the office tower and to explore ways in which it can respond to the context and the spirit of the city in which it stands. This thirty-one-storey
The Castle Cove area, north of Sydney, is the site assigned for a single-family house of reinforced concrete walls that evoke the steepy, rocky ravines that are so characteristic of the local landscape...
Overlooking the edge of a seventy-meter cliff over the east coast of Sydney, the floor plan of the Holman House spreads its free-flowing forms – which recall the Picasso painting Swimmer – over the boundaries of Dover Heights. Its zigzagging perimete
To celebrate the Olympic Games in Sydney in the year 2000, an Australian company commissioned and initiated the construction of a complex that comprises two buildings: an office tower and a residential building of lower height right beside it. At fir
One garbage truck of plastic enters the world’s oceans every minute, and more than half of Sydney’s shoreline is artificial. Rich, vibrant habitats have been replaced with seawalls and degraded by plastic pollution. The Volvo Ocean Race has
Dear Jørn: A hundred years, it’s daunting. How to ‘wish you a happy birthday’? These words are pronounced many times in the course of a lifetime. If this greeting works, it’s because it expresses celebration and good wishes at the same time, because
Jean Nouvel ha recibido recientemente la aprobación para la construcción del que será su primer proyecto en Australia. Incluido dentro del plan One Central Park, que se extiende sobre una superficie de 25 hectáreas en el centro de Sidney, el estudio
