Precinct
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Project • By PMG Group • Offices
White Fox Global Headquarters
The White Fox Global Headquarters consolidates workplace, content production, and staff amenities within a 13,000-square-metre repurposed building. Designed by PMG for the Australian fashion brand, the project treats the headquarters as both a functional workplace and an extension of White Fox’s public identity.
Rather than approaching the building as a conventional office fit-out, the intervention makes substantial modifications to the existing structure while retaining and adapting its primary fabric. The most significant is a 285-square-metre, three-storey atrium created by cutting through the existing concrete floor slabs. Four large openings, each approximately 20 by 10 metres, required extensive carbon-fibre reinforcement to re... More
Project • By REFRESH*DESIGN Studio for Architecture • Offices
The Princess Precinct
The ‘Princess Row’ is a rare surviving example of terrace houses constructed in the 1860s along the re-development of Petrie Terrace. While one of the four terrace houses had been transformed into a corner shop in 1929, those remaining were mostly unchanged from their original condition and form, however, severely dilapidated. Acquiring the terraces some time ago, the current owner envisioned establishing a hub in this upcoming area. Pursuing this, his first step was to transform the corner shop into a stylish café. With some empty land behind the existing building, the client briefed REFRESH* to develop a strategy for staged development. Stage one was to transform the three existing residences into commercial tenancies, stage two to add th... More