Above the Sydney Harbour in Australia, a 34-hectare parkland called the Domain sprawls out on the eastern fringe of the city’s central business district. In 1958, the construction of a freeway through the Domain separated two long-standing establishments: the city’s Royal Botanic Garden (built in the 1810s) and the adjacent Art Gallery of New South Wales (built since the 1870s). Later in the late 1990s, a land bridge was erected that partly reunited the two.

Since envisioned in late 2015, the Sydney Modern Project seeks to further enhance the art museum complex and its surrounding district, transforming the land ...

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