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The Rental 2.0 / Ellison Studios

Hana Abdel — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 02:00:00 +0000

ELLISON STUDIOS. unveils THE RENTAL 2.0, a captivating and fully immersive residential loft space occupying an entire floor inside the historic Edwards & Co. Ltd Building in Sydney, Australia. Straddling the line between an art installation and concept space, THE RENTAL is akin to stepping inside the brand's highly curated Instagram feed and scrolling directly into a unique brand universe that allows the studio's aesthetic sensibilities to blend with a local architectural icon.

52 Reservoir Street Commercial Building / SJB

Hana Abdel — Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The history of Surry Hills is one of constant change, adaption, and renewal. Occupying a postage-stamp-sized site, 52 Reservoir responds to this legacy with a fine-grain response to the surrounding streetscape revitalizing an overlooked part of the suburb. Constructed almost entirely during Sydney’s lockdown, this joyful commercial building delivers ground plane retail, eight levels of boutique office space with landscaped courtyards, and a roof terrace providing an oasis of green space amenity within a dense urban environment.

The Surry Residential Building / Angelo Candalepas and Associates

Hana Abdel — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 05:00:00 +0000

I had wanted to create a building that would offer something to the walking Sydney-sider; an urban building that was made with humans in mind; a building that was able to offer a smile to people as they walk toward the city and an even bigger smile to them as they walk away.
Angelo Candalepas 2019

Four Pillars Laboratory Gin Shop / YSG.STUDIO

Hana Abdel — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 21:00:00 +0000

Location - The heritage-listed two-storey freestanding brick landmark located on Surry Hills’ gourmet and retail strip was constructed in 1939 for the Bussell Brothers tea company towards the end of the Great Depression. In subsequent years it has housed mixed retail, hospitality and commercial offices. The Gin Shop straddles the north-western corner while the entrance to the serious cocktail offering, Eileen’s Bar, is via a flight of ‘juniper berry blue’ stairs accessed from the southern corner.

Nickson 61 Commercial Building / Smart Design Studio

Hana Abdel — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 21:00:00 +0000

Located at the meeting point of commercial and residential zones in busy and vibrant Surry Hills, Nickson 61 presented an ideal opportunity for the adaptive reuse of existing building stock to provide a significant architectural contribution to the area. The site is located on a corner at the end of a row of terraces towards the southern end of Nickson St. It is visible from busy Cleveland St and is adjacent to both commercial and residential properties. The site contained a late-19th century terrace and a three-meter-wide vacant end lot. This lot was originally occupied by a free-standing dwelling that had been demolished to make way for an access lane.

Double Life House / Breathe Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 17 May 2019 01:00:00 +0000

Double Life is a house for two introverts living in a world of extroverts. It is an attempt to keep them sane, to protect their true identities from the outside world. It’s their hideout, their fortress of solitude. A mild mannered exterior, but an interior made of steel and strength.

Paramount House Hotel / Breathe Architecture

Andreas Luco — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 02:00:00 +0000

Amid a suite of heritage and inter-war buildings in Sydney’s Surry Hills, Paramount House Hotel occupies a 3-storey 1930s brick warehouse, adjacent to the historic Paramount House (c.1940s). Completing an irregular city block once associated with film pioneers Paramount Pictures Studio, and 20th Century Fox Film Association, the hotel celebrates its historic context.

Hayball Sydney Studio / Hayball + Bettina Steffens

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 18:00:00 +0000

Hayball’s Sydney studio is located on the ground floor of a five-storey former shoe factory in the thriving design district of Surry Hills. The refurbished space is a prototype for staff to research and support a cultural shift to more collaborative ways of working. The building’s shell is comprised of exposed high ceilings and polished concrete floors complete with remnant dye stains hinting to the studio’s industrial past. The pared-back shell is juxtaposed against the insertion of two striking plywood structures on opposing sides of the space. These designed volumes reflect the ethos in which the space was conceived - an intertwining of old and new and an enabler for cultural shifts within Hayball’s wider practice.

Short Lane / Woods Bagot

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 10 May 2018 17:00:00 +0000

The design proposes a unique mixture of 22 apartments which appeal to the dramatic surrounding lifestyle of Surry Hills on top of a new fine grain retail component on the ground floor that activates the street frontage, existing lanes by introducing a new 'Short Lane' that joins both.

The Beehive / Luigi Rosselli + Raffaello Rosselli

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 08 May 2018 19:00:00 +0000

Revaluing Waste
Architecture is often reliant on expensive and scarce materials to define its value. The beehive explores how an undervalued waste product, like the ubiquitous terracotta roof tile can be redefined and revalued. This exploration of waste as a material stems from the knowledge that construction creates up to 50 percent of Australia’s waste output; and that a buildings energy footprint is largely based on the materials embodied energy. Material reuse solves both these environmental impacts and is by far the most efficient form of building. Raffaello Rosselli collaborated with Luigi Rosselli architects to design their new office building. Through experimenting with waste material reuse on its own studio it aims to be a role model for future projects.

Italianate House / Renato D’Ettorre Architects

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 21:00:00 +0000

This is a large addition and alterations project and there are 4 main components to the project – the Italianate Terrace House for the family, the Historic Sandstone stables as guest quarters (and later for ageing parents), the new concrete carport with landscaped roof terrace along with the gardens and the swimming pool located in a conservation area of Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia.

Surry Hills Apartment / Josephine Hurley Architecture

Daniela Cardenas — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 17:00:00 +0000

This warehouse conversion is in one of Sydney’s most recognised heritage buildings, the distinctive Edwards & Co. building. The building is wedged into a narrow street in the fast regenerating inner-city suburb of Surry Hills. Formerly a tea factory in the 1920s and more recently an advertising agency, the brief was to breathe new life into the 300-square-metre space as a private residence that spans two levels. Level 6 with the iconic arched windows was completely gutted and the former caretaker’s office was demolished and replaced with a guest retreat on the roof, located behind the emblazoned parapet.

STUDIOS 54 / Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 27 May 2015 16:00:17 +0000

This project poses a simple architectural question – what can one small shop and four apartments contribute to the life and vitality of the city?

Pelican Street / Candalepas Associates

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 15 May 2015 21:00:43 +0000

Core to the proposition is the amenity embodied in the plan. The architectural composition in the plan enables amenity to adjacent properties by seeking a departure from the street-wall forms at its key intersection. This building therefore does not follow the now-familiar proposition of urban forms and urban walls. The interiors, in-turn, yield to the formal nature of the ‘hand-form’ in the plan and such that privacy or unnecessary (and harming) views of the poorly developed adjacent sites are masked for the benefit of distance views to the inhabitants.

Bates Smart Sydney Studio / Bates Smart

Daniel Sánchez — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Bates Smart engage PointOfView to light their new Sydney Studio. Architects and interior designers are amongst the biggest supporters of lighting design. They have a clear understanding of how lighting can enhance a space they have created. They also appreciate the consequences of poor lighting.

Paramount Studios Building / Fox Johnston

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 16 May 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Architecture + contemporary culture

Austin / Smart Design Studio

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Austin is the refurbishment of a rundown warehouse into a new mixed development in the heart of Surry Hills. The existing warehouse building has been given a new lease of life, reorganizing its interior with a new extended ground level commercial space, two levels of high quality residential apartments, and a lower ground floor car park. The site is located in the inner-city fringe of Surry Hills, which is characterised by warehouses and Victorian terraces houses that in recent years have housed artist’s studios, galleries and creative work spaces.