15 March 2022

The design for the NGV Contemporary on Southbank has been released, and I really like it! I think the architect Angelo Candelapas is doing things nobody else is doing – a kind of very refined Brutalism that ends up beautiful. Almost all his work is in Sydney so far. I like very much the spherical atrium too, even though it’s a bit Guggenheim, and perhaps a bit too much like a shrine, complete with Kaws offering up a body (I’m not a fan of kaws). However I wish it was going on Fed Sq East, even though it would cost twice as much to deck over the rail lines, but we’d end up with a lot of park land as well.

Update : looking at Candalepas’ work, I can se all these elements in other projects- but I still like it.

15 March 2025

Just read that early works are starting on the site. Also, in April 2022 the Fox family pledged 100mill, so it’s going to be called ‘The Fox : NGV Contemporary’. Last image is a recent render, don’t think the design has changed. And last time I posted this, half of you didn’t like it much. This time, most of the 35 comments were positive.

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