<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>331109</docID> <postdate>2024-10-17 10:08:58</postdate> <headline>Gallery picks winner for its $60m garden competition</headline> <body><p><img class=" wp-image-331121" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/National-Sculpture-Garden-competition-print-version.jpeg" alt="" width="903" height="602" /></p> <caption>Artist interpretation of a proposed new pavilion. <span class="image-caption__credit"> </span></caption> <p><strong>The National Gallery of Australia has announced that the winner of its $60 million National Sculpture Garden Design Competition is the team CO-AP Holdings.</strong></p> <p>The team – made up of CO-AP, Studio JEF, TARN and Plus Minus Design<strong> – </strong>was selected for its joint vision of the National Sculpture Garden based on “respect, care and future ambition†for the three-hectare site.</p> <p>The gallery said it had now begun fundraising "with an ambition to raise $60 million through philanthropy to cover the costs of the revitalisation."</p> <p>National Gallery Director,Dr Nick Mitzevich said: “The jury were struck by the devotion and care CO-AP Holdings had for the National Sculpture Garden. CO-AP Holdings understood the significance and gravitas of the existing garden and its legacy, but also the importance of bringing the garden into the 21st century.â€</p> <p><img class="size-full wp-image-331122" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/09_New-Gallery-forecourt-and-Reflection-Pool.jpg-print-version.jpeg" alt="" width="900" height="600" /></p> <caption>Artist interpretation of proposed new forecourt and reflection pool.</caption> <p>Their draft design imagined a Sculpture Garden that re-connects the gallery with the surrounding landscape, enhancing accessibility, lighting and amenities.</p> <p>Other plans will be to replace the existing Sculpture Garden marquee with a permanent stainless-steel and glass pavilion that creates a new space for exhibitions, events and education programs.</p> <p>The reimagined gardens will transform the current summer, winter and spring gardens into eucalypt forests, a fern gully, casuarina groves and grassy woodlands, while there will be a new promenade and campus square at the gallery forecourt.</p> </body>