Proposed commercial building playfully combines textures and surfaces
SJB has designed a “boutique” commercial building for a prominent inner-city intersection at 117 Flinders Street, Surry Hills, in Sydney. Development approval was granted for an apartment building on the site in 2017 by the Land and Environment Court. SJB was also the firm behind that project, but the latest proposal indicated that a commercial building is better suited to the site.
The building will rise to four storeys along Flinders Street with an additional lower ground level along Hutchinson Place and basement levels throughout. The massing has been designed to correspond to adjacent buildings; on the northern edge level four is set back to allow the top volume and parapet to align with the building ay 99-115 South Dowling Street; and the southern end steps back in height and along South Dowling Street to match the scale of the adjacent terraced houses.
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