Four architectural firms selected to design Melbourne’s new NGV Contemporary

Four major architectural and multidisciplinary design teams have been shortlisted to take the next step of the NGV Contemporary Design Competition, bringing the project – “Australia’s largest cultural infrastructure project ever” – one step closer to construction.

The Victorian government announced today that John Wardle Architects, Field, Angelo Candalepas and Associates and Open Weave will continue until the final phase of the competition to design the largest installation of its kind in Australia, showcasing contemporary art , design, fashion and architecture of premises, national and international importance.

Open to Australian architectural teams, the opportunity to design and build NGV Contemporary provides an unrivaled platform to showcase Australia’s leading design and architectural industries.

Shortlisted Australian teams will move forward to design the new NGV Contemporary specially designed to create 10,000 square meters of large-scale and flexible gallery space that will allow NGV to showcase works of a scale currently not possible on its existing venues.

The four shortlisted designs were selected by the NGV Contemporary Design Competition jury for their innovative design, consideration for sustainability and connection to place.

NGV Contemporary will be located at 77 Southbank Boulevard in Southbank and will be dedicated to showcasing contemporary art, design, fashion and architecture of local, national and international significance amid a new public space of 18,000 square meters in the heart of Melbourne’s transformed arts district. .

The four shortlisted teams will now move on to the second and final stage of the design competition where they will further develop their design concepts. The successful design team will be announced in early 2022.

NGV Contemporary aims to strengthen NGV’s reputation for promoting local and international art and design in its main pre-existing galleries – NGV International on St Kilda Road and The Ian Potter Center: NGV Australia in Federation Square.

Before the pandemic, NGV welcomed more than three million visitors a year to its two galleries – St Kilda Road and Federation Square. With the addition of the new gallery, they expect that number to rise to four million.

Victorian Creative Industries Minister Danny Pearson said “the new gallery is part of Australia’s largest cultural infrastructure project ever which will be at the heart of Melbourne’s reimagined arts district and create thousands of local jobs.

“NGV Contemporary will showcase Australian design excellence to the world and create an extraordinary new gallery for all Victorians. “

Shortlisted architectural teams include:

John Wardle Architects
John Wardle Architects, OCULUS, Pierce Widera, Searle x Waldron Architecture, Greenshoot Consulting, Hecker Guthrie, Hodyl & Co, Atelier Ten, WSP, Steensen Varming, Fabio Ongarato Design, Phillip Chun, L’Observatoire International, Mott MacDonald

Field
Architectus, Edition Office, Durbach Block Jaggers, Openwork, Daniel Browning, Karen Milward, Lovell Chen, WSP, Finding Infinity, Surface Design, Speirs Major, Art Processors

Angelo Candalepas and Associates Pty Limited
Angelo Candalepas and Associates, Aspect Studios, Carr Interiors, Andy Fergus Design Strategy, BoardGrove Architects, Richard Stampton Architects, Steensen Varming, Mott MacDonald, TTW, Affinity Fire Engineering, Freeman Ryan Design, AX Interactive, Art of Fact

Open weave
Grimshaw, Winwood Mckenzie, Baracco Wright, McGregor Coxall Australia, Foolscap, Relative Projects, 20-20 Studio, Flux Consultants, AECOM, Eckersley O’Callaghan, 2X4 Inc, Paul Memmott.

Image: Concept for the new Contemporary NGV.

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