Award-winning landscape architecture firm McGregor Coxall has been selected to redesign the gardens surrounding the Art Gallery of NSW as part of the $450 million Sydney Modern project.
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The firm has left its mark on some of Sydney's most notable projects. It transformed the old Caltex site in Birchgrove into Ballast Point Park; it is involved in the creation of an eco village in Green Square; and it is redeveloping Parramatta's foreshore. It is also working on the Calyx in the Botanical Gardens, described as a living art gallery and a theatrical experience. It also redesigned the new entrance to the National Gallery in Canberra.
The Sydney-based firm was selected through a competitive process by an expert panel, said gallery director Dr Michael Brand. The panel included representatives from the Royal Botanic Gardens and Tokyo architecture firm SANAA, which was chosen to design the gallery's new wing.
Dr Brand said the Sydney Modern project would allow visitors to experience a 21st-century art museum "with a seamless unfolding of indoor and outdoor spaces linking The Domain, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Woolloomooloo and Sydney's CBD, while offering views of the harbour and beyond".
McGregor Coxall director Adrian McGregor said he appreciated the "power of the landscape setting around a gallery to link with the building and generate social activity".