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Year completed - 2020
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The visitor is drawn into the Egyptian collection by the beautifully lit granodiorite head of Ramses II.

Design immemorial: The Nicholson Galleries, Chau Chak Wing Museum

At the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum, the new Nicholson Galleries, designed by Studio Plus Three, respects and celebrates the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern Hemisphere.

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The curvacious roof produces spatial complexity and aids in wayfinding through the campus.

Playful and dynamic: James Cook University Central Plaza

Cox Architecture, Counterpoint Architecture

At JCU’s Townsville campus, a creative collective has come together to produce an academic and social hub amplified by the seamless integration of art and architecture.

Public / cultural
The stations’ entry points are characterized by curved, clear-spanning canopies. Pictured: Bella Vista Station.

Public aspiration: Metro North West Line

Eight new stations across Sydney’s north-western suburbs have been executed with admirable public aspiration and conviction – and under the assumption that the other infrastructure required for the burgeoning suburbs is forthcoming.

Public / cultural
Each of the library’s four facades depicts a different aspect of the character of Springvale.

Social condenser: Springvale Community Hub

In one of Australia’s most culturally diverse locations, Lyons has designed a multipurpose community facility with the kind of attention more often reserved for central-city projects.

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In the Grable Gallery, Over View (2019), an installation by Freeland Buck best enjoyed by lying on the floor, reconstructs the architecture of the past in multicoloured splendour.

Discoverable history: Museum Lab

Koning Eizenberg

Koning Eizenberg Architecture has continued its transformational work with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, turning a sombre, 19th-century library building into a youth-centred “lab.”

Public / cultural
Although poised and without human scale, the building remains inviting.

The ‘robust’ and ‘blunt’ Chau Chak Wing Museum

Rendered in raw, off-form concrete that will accept the effects of the weather and wear its patina with grace, JPW’s Chau Chak Wing Museum is a composed and monolithic yet welcoming addition to Sydney’s public institutions.

Public / cultural