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White Rabbit Gallery

WHITE RABBIT GALLERY

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White Rabbit Gallery
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White Rabbit Gallery
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YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Sydney Nsw, Australia

CATEGORY
Gallery , Interior Design

White Rabbit Gallery
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The White Rabbit Gallery houses one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art.

The gallery displays a permanent collection of many of the ‘big names’ in the contemporary Chinese art movement while allowing visitors to discover the work of younger, emerging artists from China across a variety of media.

White Rabbit Gallery
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White Rabbit Gallery
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The gallery displays a permanent collection of many of the ‘big names’ in the contemporary Chinese art movement while allowing visitors to discover the work of younger, emerging artists from China across a variety of media.

Close to Sydney’s Chinatown and Central Railway Station, Chippendale is characterised by its turn-of-the-century brick warehouses that in recent years have housed artists’ studios, galleries and the workplaces for various creative industries; an area that is currently undergoing large-scale urban redevelopment.

White Rabbit Gallery
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White Rabbit Gallery
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The former Carlton United Brewery (CUB) adjacent to the gallery site, is planned to be one of the largest urban redevelopment sites that Sydney has known.

The cultural contribution the White Rabbit Gallery will make to the CUB development and the regeneration of this inner-city precinct is significant.

White Rabbit Gallery
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White Rabbit Gallery
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The raw and textured brick shell of the industrial warehouse is complimented by the crisp, modern alterations to create an invigorating gallery experience and a robust backdrop for the striking artwork collection.

A three-storey sculpture hall provides for the display of specific sculptural works in the collection and brings the dramatic play of natural light into the deepest parts of the building.

Fluorescent light tubes are incorporated within sculptural window boxes that replace the aluminium warehouse windows, becoming modern white installation elements that diffuse sunlight through the skin of the building.

White Rabbit Gallery
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White Rabbit Gallery
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White Rabbit Gallery
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A new, flat, white roof sails over the building parapet to cap the original structure and mark this special new cultural place in Sydney’s inner city.

White Rabbit Gallery
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