Sydney Symphony Centre

Name Sydney Symphony Centre
Client Premier’s Department, NSW
Country Gadigal
Location Sydney
Year 2021-2022

Sydney Symphony Centre proposal adapts the former Registrar General Building as a new cultural anchor within Sydney’s Macquarie Street East Precinct. The proposal accommodates offices, rehearsal rooms and a new 650-seat concert hall, suspended in part above a public square on the site of the former 1960s Records Wing.

The concert hall is conceived as a double-layered volume, with a finely detailed timber interior that supports the acoustic and spatial qualities of performance. The room opens towards large perimeter windows, allowing views to the mature Moreton Bay fig trees of the Domain. This gives the hall a direct relationship to its surrounding landscape, connecting the experience of performance with the broader civic and environmental setting of Macquarie Street East.

Team

Tim Greer, Vanessa van Schalkwyk, Sujata Bajracharya.

Collaborators

TZG Heritage.

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