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This elegant project defines an understated
approach to alterations and additions that
enhances the best qualities of the existing
building, whilst simultaneously building on
the opportunities that the site, context and
client present.
In this partial conversion of a pair of small
arts and crafts apartment buildings, a
new residence has been crafted out of
one to create space and amenity without
compromising the character and grace of
the original building. Considered and subtle
interventions open up the original apartments
and shared staircase. The natural light that
now floods down from the rooftop living
space above reinvigorates and connects the
existing original spaces with the new.
The rooftop addition is both subservient and
exuberant, sitting low and unobtrusive at the
street edge of the building while opening
up to the north and the city view, to the sky
and garden. The individual arrangement of
rooms in the rooftop living spaces channel the
sensibilities of the former apartment rooms
below, but are unified by the garden aspect.
The garden itself is an extraordinary inner city
oasis that appreciates but is not slave to its
view - an exemplar for green rooftops.
Photo: Ross Honeysett
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE - HOUSES (ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS)
HUGH AND EVA BUHRICH AWARD
Darlinghurst Rooftop
CO-AP (Architects)
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