Gadigal Station in Sydney has been recognised by Prix Versailles as one of the World’s Most Beautiful Passenger Stations for 2025.
The prestigious global design awards praised 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.
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 it.
Public art was mentioned as a standout feature, with Callum Morton’s The Underneath – a bold tiled installation situated at both station entrances – acknowledged for its creative impact.
Comprising 10,000 brightly coloured porcelain enamel tiles, the work forms two 13-metre-high murals that depict stylised train tunnels with a playful Looney Tunes feel, referencing Sydney’s early rail infrastructure.
The station’s name, which honours the Gadigal People, the Traditional Custodians of the land around Sydney’s CBD, also received special acknowledgement.
Gadigal Station is one of six new metro stations and platforms at Central and Sydenham to have opened below Sydney’s CBD in August 2024. It welcomes around 15,700 passengers every day.
Gadigal Station is now in contention for one of three 2025 World Titles – Prix Versailles, Interior or Exterior – to be announced at the World Ceremony on 4 December 2025.
The Prix Versailles World’s Most Beautiful Stations List 2025:
- Gadigal Station (Sydney, Australia)
- Mons Station (Mons, Belgium)
- Baiyun Station (Guangzhou, China)
- Saint-Denis – Pleyel Station (Saint-Denis, France)
- Villejuif – Gustave Roussy Station (Villejuif, France)
- Qasr Al Hokm Station (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
- KAFD Station (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
