Chris Fox

Barangaroo Harbour Park (2023–2027) — co-lead artist with Jake Nash as part of the AKIN team (Yerrabingin, Architectus, ARUP, Nash & Fox). First Nations–led design for a 1.85-hectare state-significant waterfront park for Infrastructure NSW. Three site-specific vessels translate tidal, atmospheric and site conditions into inhabitable spatial form, embedding First Nations narratives within the ecological performance of the site. International dissemination via the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (2026).

Caring for Sea Country (2024–ongoing) — Rothwell-funded project examining architectural practice through ocean-based ontologies, multi-species relationships, and Indigenous understandings of land–sea continuity.

Special Studies Program, Darwin and Arnhem Land (Semester 1, 2026) — with Mimal Land Management (south-central Arnhem Land), Charles Darwin University, and Indigenous-led organisations in the Northern Territory. Developing new studio models grounded in Country, ecology and co-designed learning.

Major NTROs (since 2017)

•  Barangaroo Harbour Park — Infrastructure NSW, 2023–27 (with AKIN, First Nations–led co-design)

•  Timeflows, Blacktown International Sports Park — NSW DPE / Blacktown City Council, 2025

•  Three Bridges, Strathfield — Create NSW / Strathfield Council, 2025

•  Rozelle Interchange — TfNSW / WestConnex, 2023 — AIA Urban Design Award 2025; ASI National Steel Excellence Award 2024; Powerhouse Museum digital archive 2025

•  Iron Cove Link — TfNSW / WestConnex, 2023 — Powerhouse Museum digital archive 2025

•  Walking Together Memorial — St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, 2023

•  Re/place Pavilion — AlburyCity Council, with USyd and Swinburne, 2022

•  Wanna Dance — City of Sydney / Destination NSW, 2021

•  Immerge — Mirvac, Harold Park Tramsheds, 2021

•  Interchange Pavilion — Mirvac, South Eveleigh, 2020 — Good Design Australia Gold Accolade 2021

•  Interloop — TfNSW, Wynyard Station, 2017 — National Trust Heritage Award 2018; National Trust Register listing 2019; NSW Government Public Art Toolkit cover and lead exemplar 2022

Earlier USyd-era commissions (2013–2016)

•  Transmission — Moreton Bay Regional Council, North Lakes Library, QLD, 2014

•  Drift; Tracing Back to Bligh — Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices, Prime Minister's Office, Sydney, 2013

•  Droga Architect in Residence Collection — with Durbach Block Jaggers and the AIA, 2013

Pre-USyd practice — selected commissions

•  Convergence — Global Switch data centre, Clichy, Paris, 2011

•  Mother of Invention — Ausgrid Training Centre, with Dillon MacEwan, 2011

•  Salon Jetpack — Orange Regional Gallery, acquisition, 2010

•  Ripper — Orange Regional Gallery, permanent public work, 2009

•  28 Potatoes — Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh, acquisition, 2005

•  Inside a Radio Wave — Sculpture by the Sea Pavilion, Bondi, 2005

•  Folding Void — Sherman Galleries, Paddington, 2003

Peer-reviewed outputs

•  Fox, C. and Pagani, T. (2024) 'Computational artwork to transform places', in Coding Architecture (ed. Ruttico). Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-47913-7_9

•  Fox et al. (2023) 'Design workflows for a complex urban steel artwork', IASS Annual Symposium

•  Fox et al. (2023) 'A modular approach to repurposing timber structural elements', IASS Annual Symposium

•  Fox, C. (2017) 'Through investigating relations between constraint and abandon: An inquiry into performative drawing'. MFA thesis, SCA, University of Sydney

Fox welcomes collaborative research partnerships with industry, government, academic and First Nations partners, including ARC Linkage pathways and other competitive grants across practice-led research, civic-scale public art, computational and material systems, and Country-centred design.