This 1880’s former hotel building has been revived as a casual drinking and dining venue that draws inspiration from the original features of the building. The arches of the windows have become vaulted frames over the main bar and sweeping lamps that bring intimacy to tables; the original floral wallpaper lends its green and gold … Continued
This old Newtown factory has been transformed into a long, languid restaurant and bar space stretching from the street to the park at the rear. The street façade and a clerestoried aisle are painted in ultramarine, the latter holding a moulded timber banquette that runs along the southern edge of the space as a counterpoint … Continued
The Pyrmont Community Centre occupies the heritage listed Pyrmont Public School designed by Architect William Kemp, a locally listed heritage item. New built form has been introduced to create a new entry, gym and music/ performance space to augment the existing heritage fabric, which holds new multi use- community rooms, library link and reading spaces, … Continued
Built in the 1840’s, and first renovated in the 1890’s, this significant terrace has been returned to its original arrangement as a distinctive single dwelling. A dialogue between historical preservation and the needs of modern life has been established; within the restored spaces of the original terrace, a series of beautiful, distinctly new objects have … Continued
Set on a dramatic clifftop site The Imperial Hotel Building at Clifton has sat neglected and boarded up following the collapse and closure of Lawrence Hargrave Drive some 15 years ago. With the road now open again with the opening of the Seacliff Bridge, Welsh + Major were engaged to design and document an iconic … Continued
Presented with an existing Federation house – a freestanding bungalow that had been unsympathetically added to in the sixties or seventies – our brief was to reinvigorate the home for a family of four. The result reinstates the dignity of the original home and re-connects with its site and context. A new pavilion now re-aligns … Continued
The Hat Factory, built on Gadigal Land, has survived fire, police invasion, and countless parties…..It’s been a hat factory, a printers, a squat and a ‘social-centre’. Now it enters a new phase of its life. The Hat Factory unpicks the romantic ideal of living in a warehouse – the 2 dwellings are permeable rather than … Continued
Welsh + Major are currently working with the operators of the Mercantile Hotel and the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority on the next chapter of the life of this iconic hotel in The Rocks. A favourite haunt of The Rocks locals and visitors alike, we are looking to move the hotel on from the ‘Irish feel’ … Continued
On the eastern headland of Balmain peninsula, the historic Fenwick Tugboat Store has been transformed for Inner West Council to revitalise the harbour foreshore. The importance of the 1880’s building as part of the working harbour is acknowledged throughout the this extensive restoration and adaptation project. The building is now open to the public in … Continued
In the basement of an 1880’s warehouse building in The Rocks, this project inserts a new restaurant and bar that opens onto a key intersection the pedestrian laneway network. Externally a elegant deck and canopy bring a new vitality to the former working façade and breathe life into the laneway; the canopy creating a fine, … Continued