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Kelly Burke

‘Legacy-making’ Sydney metro stations take out top prize in NSW Architecture awards

Architecture Sydney New South Wales
Top of the escalators at one entrance to Sydney’s Martin Place metro station with the artwork Continiuum sculpture hanging from the ceiling.
Sydney’s Martin Place metro station, one of the many stations that won their designers the 2025 NSW architecture medallion this year. Photograph: Trevor Mein, Felix Mooneeram, Brett Boardman, Peter Bennett/Australian Institute of Architects

Sydney’s recently opened network of city metro stations have taken out one of the top prizes at the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2025 NSW Architecture awards, announced on Friday night.

Dozens of Australian architecture firms, engineering companies, landscape designers and public art experts shared in the 2025 NSW architecture medallion for their work on the Central, Barangaroo, Gadigal, Victoria Cross, Martin Place, Waterloo, Sydenham and Crows Nest stations in what the judges hailed as a “legacy-making” and “city-shaping” cross-sector collaboration.

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