Gadigal Metro Station

Sydney’s new metro station, Gadigal Station, has been named by the Prix Versailles as one of the World’s Most Beautiful Passenger Stations for 2025.

The prestigious global design awards commended the station’s innovative architecture, sustainable design and seamless functionality, describing it as the “epitome of absolute modernity’”. The architectural design was led by COX Architecture, in collaboration with Foster + Partners, whose work shaped the station’s award-winning identity.

More than just a transport hub, Gadigal was recognised as a future-facing urban precinct, integrating fast and reliable metro services from platforms 25 metres below ground with commercial and residential spaces that rise above.

The lighting solution throughout the station — developed, manufactured and delivered by Melbourne-based Coolon, using their Max Mini TW and IP series linear luminaires to simulate natural light rhythms in the subterranean concourse — played a key role in achieving the station’s award-winning ambiance.