Twelve Architects Shortlisted for Sydney Modern Project

Twelve local and international architecture practices have been invited by the Art Gallery of New South Wales to submit a concept design for Sydney Modern project, a $450 million expansion of the art gallery. Five practices will move on to produce conceptual designs in the final round of the competition.

The Sydney Modern vision for expansion and transformation is much more than just a building project, says Dr. Michael Brand, gallery director. Through this invited competition the gallery is seeking ideas that will create an architecturally ambitious, intelligent, sensitive, sustainable, and highly functional design. Our site overlooking Sydney Harbour will inspire each of the invited architectural practices, all of whom have extraordinary design skills.

The invited architectural practices are: Candalepas Associates Sydney David Chipperfield Architects London Fender Katsalidis Melbourne Herzog & de Meuron Basel Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA Tokyo Kengo Kuma & Associates Tokyo Kerry Hill Architects Singapore Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos Madrid RPBW (Renzo Piano Building Workshop) Genoa RMA Architects (Rahul Mehrotra Architects) Mumbai Sean Godsell Architects Melbourne Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects New York

The Sydney Modern Jury, chaired by Dr. Brand, selected these practices. The jury will select up to five architectural practices to proceed to the second stage of the competition in early 2015.

Sydney Modern Jury members include: Dr. Michael Brand, (chair) director, Art Gallery of New South Wales Kathryn Gustafson, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (Seattle) and Gustafson Porter (London) Michael Lynch, CBE AM CEO West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Hong Kong Professor Toshiko Mori Robert P Hubbard, professor in the practice of architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design Professor Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2002 Professor Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki-based architect, professor emeritus, and widely published writer Hetti Perkins, member of the Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon Aboriginal communities and internationally acclaimed curator, filmmaker, and author

Based on these final submissions, the jury will select an architectural practice in April that will work closely with the gallery and stakeholders to develop a detailed design.

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Twelve Architects Shortlisted for Sydney Modern Project