Melbourne Metro and the design heft of transport infrastructure

Having opened in late 2025, Melbourne Metro Tunnel gained significant attention even beyond our beloved realm of design media. Likewise, Sydney Metro. These are obviously huge projects, but there seems to be something extra garnering all this attention recently in Australia – a certain dynamic that keys into the wider importance of such large-scale transport infrastructure projects.For Hassell’s Ingrid Bakker in Melbourne, it has something to do with how “the architecture