We are delighted to see the Sydney Metro City Stations project recognised with the 2025 Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design at the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) National Awards.

John McAslan + Partners is proud to have played a significant role in this transformative city-shaping project, contributing to two of the eight stations – Sydney Central Station and Waterloo Station – alongside an extraordinary group of collaborators.

Our work at Central Station has redefined the experience of one of Australia’s most important transport interchanges, reconnecting passengers with the heritage of the station while creating a spacious, light-filled concourse that celebrates movement, accessibility, and civic identity. At Waterloo Station, we have helped deliver a new piece of critical infrastructure that anchors future community growth and urban renewal, designed to serve the people of Sydney for generations to come.

“The Sydney Metro City Stations project is a strategic, financial and urban design triumph... The six new stations and two enhanced stations unlock billions of dollars of economic opportunity in their creation of people-friendly precincts, underpinned by public transportation, value capture and public–private development of a scale never witnessed in Australia.”

“This is a collaboration of intricate detail that has delivered outstanding results from an engineering perspective, but the stations are also exceptional in that each has its own urban character and spatial quality... The integration of Indigenous Knowledges and public art is highly successful, telling stories of Country and imagining other worlds as people embark on their journey.”

AIA National Awards Jury 2025

Delivered on Cammeraygal and Gadigal Country, the Sydney Metro City Stations project represents one of the most complex and ambitious pieces of infrastructure in Australia’s history. The award acknowledges the power of multidisciplinary collaboration – between architects, engineers, artists, contractors, and clients – to produce enduring, people-centred urban outcomes.

John McAslan + Partners congratulates Sydney Metro and all design and delivery partners on this remarkable achievement. It is a privilege to contribute to a project that so powerfully enhances the life and connectivity of Sydney.