Marlborough House

Name Marlborough House
Client Time & Place
Country Gadigal
Location Marlborough Street, Surry Hills, NSW
Year 2025

Marlborough House was a competition proposal for the adaptive reuse of the former David Jones Warehouse and the addition of a new residential building on the corner of Lansdowne and Marlborough Streets in Surry Hills. The proposal accommodates 156 apartments within 17,082 m2 of residential floor area.

Drawing on the Botany Bay sands beneath Surry Hills, the surrounding nineteenth-century terraces and the site’s history of garment making, the new building is expressed through undulating sand-coloured brickwork, detailed balconies and screens.

Developed with Djinjama, the proposal is informed by themes from Country, including geology, landscape, sustainability and storytelling. Landscape is integrated across ground, podium and rooftop levels to support biodiversity, communal amenity and urban heat mitigation.

The adaptive reuse strategy retains and repairs existing fabric where possible, reinstates the original warehouse entrance and adapts the building for contemporary residential use while respecting its heritage character.

Team

Tim Greer, Nazia Kachwalla, Felicity May, Madeleine Gallagher, Richard Hildebrand.

Collaborators

TZG Heritage, Djinjama.

Consultants

IGS, Northrop Consulting Engineers, ADP Consulting, Urbis.

Previous Project:
Medlow Bath Bridge

Next Project:
Marrickville Traders

Marlborough House

Drawing on the Botany Bay sands beneath Surry Hills, the surrounding nineteenth-century terraces and the site’s history of garment making, the new building is expressed through undulating sand-coloured brickwork, detailed balconies and screens.

Developed with Djinjama, the proposal is informed by themes from Country, including geology, landscape, sustainability and storytelling. Landscape is integrated across ground, podium and rooftop levels to support biodiversity, communal amenity and urban heat mitigation.

The adaptive reuse strategy retains and repairs existing fabric where possible, reinstates the original warehouse entrance and adapts the building for contemporary residential use while respecting its heritage character.

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TZG acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, on whose land we work and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. We are committed to a just, equitable and reconciled Australia and support the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Always was, always will be.

TZG acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, on whose land we work and pay our respects to Elders past, present and future. We are committed to a just, equitable and reconciled Australia and support the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Always was, always will be.