Former shop and residence, Palmer Street Balmain

Relatively minor changes to a heritage item involve almost as much work as extensive alterations when it comes to securing Development Consent. Oikos Architects was commissioned to carry out internal changes and a new rear addition to this important landmark shop and residence.

The place had been extended multiple times, and the approach was to express this as further addition. The result can be interpreted as a changing building, growing and adapting to its various owners within an important heritage precinct.

Architecture: OIKOS Architects

Construction: Simon Brain Constructions

Photography: OIKOS Architects