It's been 10 years and $344 million dollars in the making, but on Saturday December 3, the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) will finally open the doors of its highly anticipated new building.
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Tokyo-based firm SANAA, the new building — the centrepiece of AGNSW's Sydney Modern Project — nearly doubles the gallery's architectural footprint and exhibition space.
Connected to the 19th-century neoclassical building by a Welcome Plaza and series of landscaped gardens, the new gallery consists of a series of sprawling, airy, glass-fronted and interlocking pavilions and stepped terraces that are embedded into the land bridge and existing infrastructure of The Domain parklands.
