Architectural Narrative

The Adelaide Contemporary seeks to reconsider the orthodoxy of how Australian art is curated and experienced through the juxtaposition of art produced contemporaneously across geographical and cultural boundaries.
We propose to embrace this agenda by incorporating the multiple interests surrounding our site to create an inclusive architecture – a seamless merging between the city and the garden with a diversity of pragmatic yet exciting spaces for art in between.
Appearing as an extension of the city to the west and pavilions in a garden to the east, the Contemporary will enlarge both public realm and the Botanic Garden, experienced in the ebbs and flows of hard- and soft-scape on its rooftops.
To the north it gently steps down in transition to the gardens and the Palm House. On North Terrace it will establish a respectful yet iconic presence with a public plaza and expanded entrance to the Botanic Garden.
The Adelaide Contemporary will be a new breed of architecture as social infrastructure and culture bearer across boundaries.

Visual Narrative

This series explores the architectural ambition of Adelaide Contemporary through a study of light, material, and spatial rhythm. Each image reflects the project’s broader agenda: a new cultural typology that merges city and garden, art and public life. Rather than a linear documentation, the visuals aim to express how the building operates as both an urban extension and a series of garden pavilions—where hardscape and landscape flow across thresholds, rooftops, and plazas.
The compositions vary in scale and focus. Some situate the project within its civic and botanical context, revealing its role as a connective tissue between the city and the gardens. Others zoom in to capture architectural transitions—material junctions, softened edges, and moments of light that express the building’s inclusive and permeable character. Together, the images form a layered reading of the design as social infrastructure: open, generous, and in dialogue with the cultural diversity it aims to serve.