In Chippendale, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, a new "Phoenix Central Park Gallery" art and culture centre has been established, with a unique façade with natural textures and irregular surfaces, and its interior contains two parts: the theater and the gallery.
The architects of the building are two Australian architects with very different design styles, and the two have created an interesting space that blends visual and performing arts with their own unique expressive techniques and aesthetic perspectives, and allows two art forms with very different forms of expression to dialogue with each other.
The original intention of building the "Phoenix Central Park Gallery" was proposed by the Australian businesswoman and philanthropist Judith Nelson, who co-founded the White Rabbit Museum in Sydney, which later led to the creation of this art space, which she hopes to combine visual and performing arts. As a result, the venue was built consisting of both a gallery and a theatre, with John Wardle Architects designing the gallery section of the East Wing and the theatre section being handled by Durbach Block Jaggers, which were connected through an open-air courtyard and the two sides working together to create the building's façade.
The surface of the building of the external façade is very geological, with earthy colors and irregular design with a sense of machine, so that the atmosphere has a strong natural atmosphere, at the same time, the concave and convex covering the façade become an interesting "dimple" in the building, and through the circle, triangle, rectangular and other geometric elements of the needle lead, to create a contrast with nature of the artificial line, and the circular window surface embellished with the façade to create a modern atmosphere. The two architectural design teams have incorporated a variety of elements into the design to create such a strange but extremely harmonious architectural appearance, so that a building can be divided into two works, and it contains the characteristics of echoing each other.
Among them, the gallery is composed of concrete and wood, and the inner part is a series of spaces such as independent exhibition rooms and curatorial areas with open moving lines, so that the exhibition has more flexible venue conditions.
The theater is presented in the shape of a bell, and the layers of stepped wood construct the wall, so that the overall line is both smooth and enveloping, making people feel like they are in a primitive cave, Durbach Block Jaggers also did not forget to deliberately choose high saturated green, red and other colors to decorate the space, creating a little modern atmosphere for the "cave".
The atrium serves the function of connecting the gallery and the theater, and the sunlight sprinkles from the open air, reflecting on the matching pure white tones and green plants, creating a comfortable atmosphere, coordinating the high coldness of the gallery and the dark atmosphere of the theater, and the sunlight seems to penetrate from the mouth of the cave, emitting a beautiful halo, so that the atrium is not only a transitional space in the venue, but also plays a role in maintaining the overall balance of the field, and becomes a bridge for dialogue between the two art forms.