Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Client
NSW Department of Education and Training
Location
Sydney, Australia
Value
AUD $150M
Jackson Architecture was granted the opportunity to redevelop the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and new facilities for the Conservatorium High School.
This iconic structure obtains a history dating back to 1915, when NSW Government Architect Seymour Wells built a Conservatorium of Music in a stable building designed by celebrated colonial architect Francis Greenway, introducing a Federation-style Concert Hall to the open courtyard.
The historic site required a sympathetic yet decisive response.
Additions from the 1960s were removed and the c1820 Government Stables building was revealed by partially submerging the new campus facilities.
The outcome sees a design respectful of the buildings heritage yet delivers a facility that responds to the demands of a modern conservatorium.
The Concert Hall, 270 seat music workshop, twin recital halls, and some 130 practice rooms now sit beneath the landscape parterres of a reconstructed section of the Botanic Gardens.
A dramatic three-storey foyer space cuts into the sandstone of the site to link the old and the new facilities.
