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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Sian Cain

Art Gallery of NSW’s $344m building extension finally named more than a year after it opened

Aerial view of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s newer building, which had been colloquially known as the Sydney Modern since it opened 2022 but has now been officially named Naala Badu.
The Art Gallery of NSW’s new building, which had been colloquially known as Sydney Modern since it opened in 2022, has been officially named Naala Badu. Photograph: Iwan Baan

More than a year after it opened to the public, the $344m gallery and contemporary extension to the Art Gallery of New South Wales has finally been named.

The gallery, which has been colloquially known as the Sydney Modern or the northern building since it opened in December 2022, has been named Naala Badu, meaning “seeing waters” in the language of the Dharug people. The building looks out on to Sydney Harbour.

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