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It would be churlish not the hail the Sydney Modern
More than four years after it was first proposed, Sydney Modern, it seems, is finally about to be transformed from a vision that exists only on the architects' computer screens and in the mind's eye of Art Gallery of NSW director Michael Brand into a reality of steel and glass.