Penrith Railway Station lies on the Western outer rim of the Sydney Metropolitan Railway Network. This project was part of a larger project, initiated by the State Government, to refurbish certain key stations in time for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

The design takes prompts from an earlier master-plan document completed

by other architects.

The steel structure defers to the existing industrial yet institutional nature of earlier platform and station buildings adjacent. Extruded architectural forms in steel are used for simplicity of structure. The details of these forms are borne out of a development  of the idea that steel can have a tactile quality if shaped in an appropriate manner. Internal light shelves and deep eaves result from this approach.