The Art Gallery of New South Wales sits on Art Gallery Road in The Domain. Walter Liberty Vernon designed the original building, which opened in May 1897. SANAA, led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, won a 2015 competition for the Sydney Modern Project, which opened on December 2, 2022. The article does not name a style for the extension.
The project cost 344 million Australian dollars, with 244 million from the state government. It nearly doubled exhibition space to 16,000 square meters. It has cascading galleries and large windows with harbor views. The Tank is a converted underground oil bunker used as a columned gallery.
The extension focuses on contemporary and installation work, with an emphasis on First Nations art.
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