The new Asian galleries allow the AGNSW’s permanent collection of Asian Arts to expand, and provides a world-class space for travelling exhibitions.

The building is expressive of a new era in Australian culture at the turn of the 21st century, notably Australia’s growing links to and position in Asia.

Located above the existing Asian gallery of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, doubled-skinned glass façade of the extension filters daylight, allowing works to be displayed without totally isolating the gallery from the outside environment. At night, this facade glows from within, the simple, geometric language referring to traditional Asian lanterns and giving the Gallery presence and scale within the Sydney skyline.