Sydney Open

The Fullerton Hotel, Sydney
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Sydney Open 2025 Members Competition winner

The winner of our Sydney Open 2025 Members Competition took home the ultimate Sydney Open prize package.

Sydney Open 2023 volunteer group photo
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Volunteer for Sydney Open 2025

Sydney Open is Australia’s premier architectural event. It’s when Museums of History NSW opens the doors of many of Sydney’s most significant buildings for fans of architecture and heritage to explore

View from the Sirius building
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Sydney Open Adaptive Reuse 2024 Members Competition winner

On the day of Sydney Open, the winner of our members competition, H K of Redfern, and a guest enjoyed a very special personal tour of the Sirius building

Luna Park with lights on

Sydney Open Series

Building on the Sydney Open program, this series offers talks, workshops, and tours throughout the year, with a focus on history, architecture, design innovation, sustainability, and heritage

Sydney Open 6/11/2022. Picture James Horan for Sydney Living Museums
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Volunteer at Sydney Open 2023

Applications are now open to volunteer at Australia’s premier open building event

Two Point Perspective: Sydney social housing

In this podcast presenters Rebecca Hawcroft and Kieran McInerney chat with architectural historian and heritage specialist Dr Noni Boyd and architect Dr Michael Zanardo

The Lucas House, The Bulwark, Castlecrag NSW

Two Point Perspective: the Glass House

In this podcast, presenters Rebecca Hawcroft and Kieran McInerney go to a well-known Sydney house from the 1950s, but one very few people will have visited

The house Currandooley, 1961. Enrico Taglietti architect.

Two Point Perspective: Enrico Taglietti, a facade of shadows

In this podcast our presenters Rebecca Hawcroft and Kieran McInerney go on the road to western NSW and Canberra to look at the work of an Italian architect

Dark concrete facade against a bright blue sky

Two Point Perspective: the Cross Street parking station

The Cross Street parking station, in Sydney’s Double Bay, is one of those unusual buildings that transforms a simple brief into something special