The Sydney Metro has garnered heart eyes from the general public ever since it began operating – and now it’s even collecting some hardware for its design. As well as picking up a NSW Architecture Award in the Urban Design category this year – and Gadigal Station being named among the world's seven most beautiful stations – it has also taken a 2025 Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design.
Not one, but the collective of Sydney Metro City Stations, was awarded this esteemed accolade by the 2025 National Architecture Awards Jury after being called a “strategic, financial and urban design triumph”.
Amongst the six stations and two enhanced stations, the jury were unable to pick a clear favourite (that would be like asking someone to pick their favourite sandwich shop – not possible!) and therefore had no choice but to award them all.
There’s a lot to love about the Sydney Metro (big ticks for cleanliness) but the jury were taken by each stations’ commitment to “celebrating the unique qualities of place and the delight of ascending from station to footpath”.
They also acknowledged the very meaningful integration of Indigenous Knowledges and public art at the stations and applauded the outstanding detail given to the engineering.
Thanks, Sydney Metro, for being an architectural masterpiece, quick, clean and pretty much always on time.
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