One of Sydney’s last remaining wool stores, conserved and adapted as a multi-level hospitality venue in the city’s heritage heartland. The giant skeleton of Hinchcliff House is brilliantly reborn as a pivotal place within the Quay Quarter Lanes precinct at Circular Quay, Sydney, alongside works from SJB, Studio Bright, Silvester Fuller, Lippmann Partnership, and ASPECT Studios.
Its original sandstone, brick and mighty hardwood trusses are revived and expressed as the backdrop to a
glamorous new dining destination.
Information
Client
AMP Capital
Location
Sydney, NSW - Traditional Custodians: Gadi Peoples
Size (m2)
1000
Commission
2014
Completion
2021
Our Team
Shaun Carter
Nuala Collins
Stephanie Chiu
Vivienne Hinschen
Ben Peake
Thu Zaw
Tai Danh Lien
Collaborators
Heritage Consultant
Urbis Heritage
Interior Designers
Mitchell & Eades
Construction
Richard Crookes Construction
Photography
Phil Noller
Photography
Rory Gardiner
Photography
Jiwon Kim
Awards
National Architecture Awards, Walter Burley Griffin Award for Urban Design (as part of Quay Quarter Lanes)
Winner
NSW Architecture Awards, Urban Design (as part of Quay Quarter Lanes)
Winner
NSW Architecture Awards, The Lord Mayor's Prize (as part of Quay Quarter Lanes)
Winner
NSW Architecture Awards, Interiors (w/ Mitchell & Eades)
Shortlist
NSW Architecture Awards, Heritage
Shortlist
INDE. Awards, The Social Space
Shortlist
National Trust (NSW) Heritage Awards, Conservation - Built Heritage
Shortlist
After 150 years, the two largely intact wool stores - built for colonial merchant Andrew Hinchcliff – are transformed, their material structures restored in collaboration with Urbis Heritage. Hand-cut sandstone and brick walls, timber beams, and bearers are all revived, with incisions for extra light and new insertions crafted in fine black steel.
A freestanding steel staircase and elevator connect all three dining levels and a new underground bar that has been carved into the sandstone basement. The exterior restoration of the sandstone walls included the reinstatement of its original crowning glory – a giant golden ram atop the northern parapet.
