Sydney Metro marvel Gadigal Station wins world’s most beautiful interior
27.01.2026
Sydney has added another global landmark to its collection, with Gadigal Station taking out the Prix Versailles World Title – Special Prize for Interior at the 2025 ceremony.
The win follows its November selection as one of the “Magnificent Seven” most beautiful passenger stations for 2025, with the underground station setting a new benchmark in contemporary transport design.
Each day thousands move through Gadigal’s expansive sandstone-lined concourses into its sleek, high-performance platform areas, featuring futuristic aluminium tube panelling that enhances both acoustics and visual appeal.
A defining feature of the station is its integration of Aboriginal cultural heritage. Named in honour of the Gadigal People, the station recently unveiled Return of the Gadi Reed - four striking cast-aluminium sculptures by Rowena Welsh-Jarrett, Alison Page and Dakota Dixon placed at both station entrances.
The artwork is inspired by traditional reed necklaces created out of Gadi, native reeds once found across the Tank Stream Valley where the station is now located. This new public art piece complements Callum Morton’s bold tiled installation The Underneath lining the walls inside both station entrances.
More than a transit hub, Gadigal anchors two towers above: Parkline Place, a premium commercial building, and Sydney’s first build-to-rent residential tower with 234 apartments.
Since opening in August 2024, the station has welcomed around 15,700 passengers daily as one of six new underground stations between Central and Sydenham, with fast services including 13 minutes to Chatswood and nine minutes to Sydenham.
This global design award recognises outstanding architecture and design led by Sydney Metro in partnership with Foster + Partners and COX Architecture.