Architecture firm Make and interior design practice BAR Studio have converted Sydney‘s heritage-listed Department of Education building into the latest outpost from Capella Hotels.
The adaptive reuse project involved adding a modern extension with curved glass corners to the building’s roof, set back from its sandstone facade to respect the original Edwardian Baroque architecture.
With these four additional floors, the building now measures eleven storeys high and houses 192 guest rooms alongside bars, restaurants and a 20-metre swimming pool that occupies the former sixth-floor gallery.
Sydney’s Department of Education building was converted into a Capella hotel
Since the Department of Education was constructed in Sydney’s historic Sandstone Precinct in 1912,
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