Gadigal Station lands on Prix Versailles 2025 list

Gadigal Station joins the Prix Versailles 2025 roll as one of the world’s most beautiful passenger stations, because design, sustainability, and art converge with a fast, deeply engineered metro.

This is reported by the railway transport news portal Railway Supply.

How Gadigal Station ties architecture to daily mobility?

COX Architecture and Foster + Partners lead the design, and they do so with a clear brief: move people quickly, and keep the space legible. They use natural light, broad concourses, and short transfers.

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Engineers place the platforms 25 meters below ground, so builders stack retail, offices, and homes above. In real terms, the hub concentrates trips and trims car use around the CBD.

The station opened in August 2024 on Sydney Metro City & Southwest between Central and Sydenham. Roughly 15,700 riders use it each day—a figure that, frankly, shows steady traction.

Why Gadigal Station blends culture, art, and operations?

The name acknowledges the Gadigal People, the Traditional Custodians of the land. That statement now appears across major NSW projects because agencies embed cultural recognition into design and operations.

Public art shifts the mood at the doors. Callum Morton’s installation, The Underneath, assembles 10,000 porcelain-enamel tiles into two 13-meter murals with a playful, almost Looney Tunes tunnel motif.

Award jurors cite “absolute modernity,” and the phrase fits; the scheme mixes low-carbon choices, daylighting, and wayfinding clarity, so the experience feels intuitive at rush hour and still coherent late at night.

The Prix Versailles shortlist now moves toward World Titles—Architecture, Interior, and Exterior—set for December 4, 2025. Peers on the list include Mons, Baiyun, Saint-Denis – Pleyel, Villejuif – Gustave Roussy, Qasr Al Hokm, and KAFD.

For many commuters, the effect is simple: fewer friction points and steadier travel times. As experts note, consistent station legibility often drives mode shift because it lowers cognitive load across repeat trips.

City planners can borrow the template, to be fair. Pair early community input with an art program, protect short walking paths, and, meanwhile, connect stacks of mixed use directly to the paid area.

Source: www.railexpress.com.au

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