Sydney Metro’s Gadigal Station has been awarded the Prix Versailles World Title – Special Prize for Interior at the 2025 ceremony, recognising outstanding achievement in passenger station design.
The award follows the station’s selection in November as one of the “Magnificent Seven” most beautiful passenger stations for 2025, with the underground precinct setting a new benchmark in contemporary transport infrastructure.
Thousands of passengers move through Gadigal Station each day via expansive sandstone-lined concourses leading to high-performance platforms, featuring aluminium tube panelling designed to enhance acoustics and visual appeal.
Aboriginal cultural heritage is a defining feature of the station’s design. Named in honour of the Gadigal People, the station features Return of the Gadi Reed, a series of cast-aluminium sculptures by Rowena Welsh-Jarrett, Alison Page and Dakota Dixon, installed at both station entrances.
The artwork draws inspiration from traditional reed necklaces made from Gadi, native reeds once found throughout the Tank Stream Valley. It complements Callum Morton’s tiled installation The Underneath, which lines the interior walls of both station entrances.
Beyond its transport function, Gadigal Station anchors two towers above the station footprint: Parkline Place, a commercial office development, and Sydney’s first build-to-rent residential tower, delivering 234 apartments.
Since opening in August 2024, the station has recorded average daily patronage of around 15,700 passengers. It is one of six new underground stations delivered between Central and Sydenham, providing fast connections including 13 minutes to Chatswood and nine minutes to Sydenham.
The global design award recognises architectural and design leadership delivered by Sydney Metro in partnership with Foster + Partners and COX Architecture.
