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Type - Adaptive re-use
Location - Sydney
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Colour has been used to differentiate the spaces and to elevate the interiors through playful but complementary colour schemes.

Flying colours: Giraffe Early Learning Centre

In Sydney’s Northern Beaches, architecture studio Supercontext has restored and reused a heritage substation, converting it into a place for children to play and learn.

Education
Sliding panels and bifold doors allow the interior to return to its original singular volume. Artwork: Elliott “Numskull” Routledge.

‘Changing the performance’: Camperdown Warehouse

Fusing concepts inherent in furniture design and architecture, this conversion of a former motor vehicle factory in Sydney serves as a prototype for a novel approach to adaptive re-use.

Interiors, Residential
In the renovated Esme Cahill building, the seven flat arches of the original facade (a reference to Filippo Brunelleschi’s historic foundling hospital in Florence) have been dramatically extruded to create three-dimensional forms that define a large outdoor canopy.

Joynton Avenue Creative Precinct

In this robust work of adaptive re-use, Peter Stutchbury Architecture has reached back into history to transform an ensemble of former hospital buildings in Sydney’s Green Square Town Centre into a dynamic public arts precinct.

Public / cultural
Excavated sandstone blocks are used to re-create the pre-colonial landform of the Barangaroo Reserve site, a former shipyard.

A naturalized landscape: Barangaroo Reserve

Bruce Mackenzie examines the design thinking, vegetation, soil science and collaboration that created Barangaroo Reserve.

Landscape / urban
The architects retained the facade of the former Kent Brewery, designed by Maurice Halligan and F. H. B. Wilton and constructed in 1912.

Dynamic power: Irving Street Brewery

Tzannes Associates’ adaptive re-use of the former Kent Brewery in the heart of Sydney’s Central Park retains the brick facade and inserts part of a trigeneration plant that powers the neighbourhood.

Public / cultural
The Beaux-Arts revivalist-style building at 50 Martin Place has been revitalized by Johnson Pilton Walker for Macquarie Group.

Jewel in the crown: 50 Martin Place

Johnson Pilton Walker revives a monumental building in one of Sydney’s most significant civic spaces.

Commercial
An indoor landscape unfolds beneath the pitched roofs and steel trusses of the warehouse.

Imagination at play: Camperdown Childcare

A childcare centre that is all about learning through play – a philosophy that not only applies to the youngsters but also informed the design process.

Education, Interiors
The dining room is physically and experientially at Ester’s centre.

Ester Restaurant and Bar

A former loading dock in Sydney’s Chippendale, transformed with by Anthony Gill Architects.

Hospitality, Interiors
The floating fitout barely touches the heritage-listed building shell.

Ansarada Office

Those Architects create a new work/life balance in the global office of a young tech company.

Commercial, Interiors
The Majestic Theatre building has been modified many times.

The Majestic

A deft inner-Sydney theatre conversion by Hill Thalis.

Residential
King deluxe suite at 1888 Hotel, Pyrmont NSW.

1888 Hotel, Sydney

Shed Architects

Shed Architects and Space Control Design turn a Pyrmont woolshed into a boutique hotel.

Hospitality, Interiors
The private dining room is warm and eclectic.

QT Hotel, Sydney

Eclectic and nostalgic interiors by Nicholas Graham & Associates and Indyk Architects.

Hospitality, Interiors
The character and shape of the original cowshed are kept.

Cowshed House

The bold reworking of a late-nineteenth-century cowshed in Sydney by Carterwilliamson Architects.

Residential
The Glebe Town Hall’s restored Victorian Free Classical facade.

Glebe Town Hall

After an extensive conservation program, the 130-year-old building reopened in March 2013.

Public / cultural
Willoughby Incinerator revived

Willoughby Incinerator revived

Walter Burley Griffin and Eric Nicholls

The Willoughby Incinerator by Walter Burley Griffin and Eric Nicholls is adapated as an artist’s studio, gallery and café.

Hospitality, Public / cultural