The Fox: NGV Contemporary Design Competition exhibition celebrates the visionary and dynamic design approaches, work and creativity of eight multidisciplinary Australian design teams who took part in the design competition to appoint a winning team and select a design for The Fox: NGV Contemporary.

The Fox: NGV Contemporary is one of the most significant projects in Australia’s cultural, civic, and architectural history. The landmark gallery will celebrate the central role of art and design in contemporary life and culture. Located at the heart of a transformed Melbourne Arts Precinct, amid 18,000 square metres of green space, the building will be the largest museum of contemporary art and design in Australia.

In 2021, the design competition was announced by the Victorian Government. In an unprecedented move for a competition of this scale and civic profile, the competition was open exclusively to Australian architecture teams – an important acknowledgement of the depth of Australian architectural talent.

The Fox: NGV Contemporary Design Competition reveals the quality and breadth of ideas submitted by each team. Through each response, we discover insight into the some of the leading architectural practices in Australia and the many possibilities that architecture offers our communities.

Following a two-part expression of interest, the NGV Contemporary Design Competition Jury nominated eight teams to participate in the competition Stage One, with each developing an initial visionary design proposal. From these eight, the Jury shortlisted four teams to progress, refine and resolve their design during Stage Two.

At the completion of Stage Two the Jury recommended a winning design proposal to the Victorian Government.

In March 2022 the team led by Angelo Candalepas and Associates was announced as the competition winner. The NGV Contemporary Design Competition was delivered by NGV in partnership with the NGV Contemporary project delivery agency Development Victoria and competition advisors CityLab, Probity Advisor Anne Dalton, with oversight from the Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation (MAPT) program managers Melbourne Arts Precinct Corporation (MAP Co).

COMPETITION JURY

Tony Ellwood AM, Director, NGV
Jill Garner AM, Victorian Government Architect
Office of the Victorian Government Architect
Francine Houben, Founding Director, Mecanoo
Corbett Lyon, NGV Emeritus Trustee and Director, Lyons Architecture (Jury Chair)
Gerard Reinmuth, Principal and Director, Terroir
Xu Tiantian, Founding Principal, DnA_Design and Architecture

SPECIAL ADVISOR
Maree Clarke, Curator, Artist and Art Consultant

007 The Melbourne Cultural Collective
ARM Architecture, Woods Bagot, Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Sibling Architecture, Studio Adrien Gardere, Grumpy Sailor, Boon Wurrung Foundation, 4D Workshop, Norman Disney & Young, Buro Happold, Marshall Day Acoustics, Electrolight Australia, One Mile Grid, Movement Strategies, MGAC Victoria, PLP Building Surveyors and Consultants

008 Bates Smart and Smart Design Studio
Bates Smart, Smart Design, Taylor Cullity Lethlean, studioplusthree, Arup, Eckersley O’Callaghan, Steensen Varming, Studio Ongarato Design

023 John Wardle Architects
John Wardle Architects, OCULUS, Pierce Widera, Searle x Waldron Architecture, Greenshoot Consulting, Hecker Guthrie, Hodyl & Co, Atelier Ten, WSP, Steensen Varming, Fabio Ongarato Design, Phillip Chun, L’Observatoire International, Mott MacDonald

028 JCB Stutchbury Clare
Jackson Clements Burrows, Clare Design, Peter Stutchbury, Site Office Landscape Architecture, Design Urban, TTW, Aurecon, Flux Consultants

033 Denton Corker Marshall and Kerstin Thompson Architects
Denton Corker Marshall, Kerstin Thompson Architects, SBLA Studio, Tellart, Tiiamanno Consultants, Arup, Büro North

057 Field
Architectus, Edition Office, Durbach Block Jaggers, Openwork, Daniel Browning, Karen Milward, Lovell Chen, WSP, Finding Infinity, Surface Design, Speirs Major, Art Processors

066 Angelo Candalepas and Associates
Angelo Candalepas and Associates, Aspect Studios, Andy Fergus Design Strategy, Carr Interiors, Richard Stampton, BoardGrove Architects, Steensen Varming, Mott MacDonald, TTW, Affinity Fire Engineering, Freeman Ryan Design, AX Interactive, Art of Fact

083 Open Weave
Grimshaw, Winwood Mckenzie, Baracco Wright, McGregor Coxall Australia, Foolscap, Relative Projects, 20-20 Studio, Flux Consultants, AECOM, Eckersley O’Callaghan, 2X4 Inc, Paul Memmott

023 John Wardle Architects
John Wardle Architects, OCULUS, Pierce Widera, Searle x Waldron Architecture, Greenshoot Consulting, Hecker Guthrie, Hodyl & Co, Atelier Ten, WSP, Steensen Varming, Studio Ongarato Design, Phillip Chun, L’Observatoire International, Mott MacDonald

057 Field
Architectus, Edition Office, Durbach Block Jaggers, Openwork, Daniel Browning, Karen Milward, Lovell Chen, WSP, Finding Infinity, Surface Design, Speirs Major, Art Processors

066 Angelo Candalepas and Associates
Angelo Candalepas and Associates, Aspect Studios, Carr Interiors, Andy Fergus Design Strategy, BoardGrove Architects, Richard Stampton Architects, Steensen Varming, Mott MacDonald, TTW, Affinity Fire Engineering, Freeman Ryan Design, AX Interactive, Art of Fact

083 Open Weave
Grimshaw, Winwood Mckenzie, Baracco Wright, McGregor Coxall Australia, Foolscap, Relative Projects, 20-20 Studio, Flux Consultants, AECOM, Eckersley O’Callaghan, 2X4 Inc, Paul Memmott