Gadigal Station (formerly Pitt Street Station) is strategically located at the junction of Sydney’s southern CBD and the Midtown retail precinct. It serves a mixed employment, residential, entertainment, cultural and events-based precinct that adjoins Chinatown.
The station has entrances at the northern and southern end of the platforms. The southern entrance sits under the Indi Apartments development while the northern entrance faces onto the tree lined Park Street, which is one of the most prominent east-west streets in Sydney. This entrance is celebrated with a glass veil, which allows daylight to flood the station concourse throughout the day. Two lifts and two sets of escalators in a switch-back arrangement connect the concourse and platform levels. A total of eight escalators are housed at the north entrance with six at the southern entrance. The wall facing the escalators features tiled artworks by Australian artist Callum Morton, commissioned by Sydney Metro.
Grey granite paving extends into the station from the street and establishes the concourse as part of the public realm. Walls at concourse level are clad in white back-painted glass panels, which transition to local sandstone below ground. The granite paving also transitions to white terrazzo on the lower levels.
Below ground, the station is lined in glass reinforced concrete panels on the walls and aluminium tubes on the ceiling. The curved geometry assists intuitive wayfinding, leading customers from concourse to platform.
The station entry box acts as the foundation to the over station development above. The office tower, Parkline Place, is also designed by Foster + Partners and articulated as three vertical forms with curved corner glazing. A recess in the facade continues through the full height of the tower and is centred on the station’s entrance.
The new development includes bike parking on Park and Bathurst streets and enhanced pedestrian infrastructure around the station.
Sydney Metro is Australia's biggest public transport project. Working as part of the METRON consortium, the practice completed preliminary designs for five stations on the Sydney Metro City & Southwest line. This initial scope defined the passenger experience, considered the integration of the oversite developments, and outlined how each station would connect with its wider precinct. The practice then took Gadigal and Barangaroo stations from preliminary design through to construction phase services.
