Foster + Partners’ ‘Civic Vision’ Exhibition Opens at Sydney’s Parkline Place.

Marseille Vieux Port. Photo: Nigel Young/ Foster + Partners.

Great Court At The British Museum. Photo: Nigel Young/ Foster + Partners.

Hong Kong International Airport. Photo: Dennis Gilbert/ VIEW.

30 St Mary Axe (The Gherkin). Photo: Nigel Young/ Foster + Partners.

Deutsche Bank Place Sydney. Photo: Nigel Young/ Foster + Partners.

Gadigal Station Sydney. Photo: Brett Boardman.

Foster + Partners ‘Civic Vision’ at Parkline Place, Level 2, 252 Pitt Street, Sydney, above Gadigal Metro. Photo: Alicia Taylor.

Foster + Partners has opened Civic Vision at Sydney’s Parkline Place—their first major Australian exhibition. Running until 21 December 2025, it’s a deep dive into nearly 60 years of work from the influential practice Norman Foster founded back in 1967, with a clear focus on civic architecture and sustainable design.

The exhibition sits on level 2 of Parkline Place, which happens to be Foster + Partners’ latest Sydney project. Gerard Evenden, Head of Studio, says it’s a chance to look back at their approach to civic architecture—something that’s been central to their work since the 1960s and keeps evolving.

Split into three themes—Community + Culture, Living + Working, and Planning + Mobility—the show spans early projects like the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank HQ and Hong Kong International Airport through to newer work like the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi. Local projects get plenty of attention too: Deutsche Bank Place, Salesforce Tower at Sydney Place, and Parkline Place itself.

Parkline Place, a building they’ve spent six years developing. “Our projects in the city exemplify the civic and sustainable approach that the exhibition centres on,” he says. Deutsche Bank Place brought a four-storey public plaza to the CBD. Their Sydney Metro stations are changing how thousands of people move through the city.

Foster + Partners has always looked beyond just tech innovation. Since the 1960s, they’ve been designing environmental masterplans and carbon-neutral cities, thinking about how sustainable design can actually improve urban life. Their take on sustainability goes past energy numbers—it’s about how spaces make people feel through light, layout, and flow.

Civic Vision connects old and new, showing how their ideas and buildings have lasted while still adapting. The exhibition digs into what the practice keeps coming back to: density done well, natural light, green space, and how cities connect globally.

Foster + Partners | Civic Vision exhibition runs from 25 October 2025 to 21 December 2025 on level 2 of Parkline Place, 252 Pitt Street, Sydney, Australia. Admission is free.

Transamerica Pyramid Center, The Vertical City Exhibition. Photo: Nigel Young/ Foster + Partners.

Centre Pompidou Exhibition. Photo: Nigel Young/ Foster + Partners.

[Images courtesy of Foster + Partners. Photography credits as noted.]