Newtown Silos

Name Newtown Silos
Client Angus Developments and Grant Samuels
Country Gadigal
Location Newtown, NSW
Year 1999 - 2005

The landmark structures of Newtown’s Crago Mill are developed into three contemporary buildings accommodating 59 apartments over 14 levels.

Historically, flour milling took place in large city mills next to railway lines. The original concrete silos, timber grain storage bins, the interstitial space, and a new low-rise structure alongside are carefully articulated to be legible as a united whole apartment complex.

The two main foyers are integrated into the ground level bases of the impressive silos and timber bins. Between these structures, landscaping flanks the pathway to the entrances.

The project retains the bold industrial qualities, scale and aesthetics of the existing complex.

The Silos use the expressive circular forms to create unusual but rational room shapes, uniting southern views with northern sunlight. The building’s historic past is recalled in the original raw wall surfaces.

The new low-level building along Gladstone Street forms a street edge with contemporary apartments. Crowning the silos is a new 3-storey metal-clad penthouse with views across Sydney.

Awards

2006 Marrickville Council Medal for Conservation.
2006 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Conservation “ Energy Management Award.
2006 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Adaptive Reuse Award.

Team

Tim Greer, Angela Rheinlander, Kon Vourtzoumis, Julie Mackenzie, Victor Young, Roger O’Sullivan, Paul Rolfe, John Chesterman, Bettina Siegmund, Ruth Leiminer, Jo Vranistas, Marcia Morley, Liz Wearne.

Collaborators

TZG Heritage.

Consultants

Morgan Moore & Associates, Southern Cross Constructions, M+G Consulting, Transport and Traffic Planning Associates, DDP Electrical Services, ITM Design, City Plan Services, DeFire, Goddon Mackay Logan, 360º Landscape Architects, Acoustic Logic Consultancy, Whiffen & Andrews.

Photographer

Patrick Bingham-Hall.

Previous Project:
Portico Apartments

Next Project:
Port Arthur Separate Prison

Newtown Silos

Historically, flour milling took place in large city mills next to railway lines. The original concrete silos, timber grain storage bins, the interstitial space, and a new low-rise structure alongside are carefully articulated to be legible as a united whole apartment complex.

The two main foyers are integrated into the ground level bases of the impressive silos and timber bins. Between these structures, landscaping flanks the pathway to the entrances.

The project retains the bold industrial qualities, scale and aesthetics of the existing complex.

The Silos use the expressive circular forms to create unusual but rational room shapes, uniting southern views with northern sunlight. The building’s historic past is recalled in the original raw wall surfaces.

The new low-level building along Gladstone Street forms a street edge with contemporary apartments. Crowning the silos is a new 3-storey metal-clad penthouse with views across Sydney.

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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.