Award-winning architects Chenchow Little’s fourth project with lifestyle property group BresicWhitney has been shortlisted by the Australian Institute of Architects for a 2018 NSW Architecture Award. The project is one of 12 up for an award in the Interior Architecture category. The awards will be announced on Friday 6 July.

The new Rosebery office is located in a small warehouse tenancy that forms part of ‘The Cannery’ precinct, which is revitalising one of Sydney’s first model industrial suburbs and is home to the likes of Koskela, Black Star Pastry, Three Blue Ducks and Archie Rose Distilling Company. The office is a study in the art of opposites where raw, industrial forms are softened by circular shapes and fluid, theatrical drapery. Working within a heritage overlay, the office interior is designed as a theatre set, without solid walls, to respect the existing building fabric including the original exposed beams, trusses, roofline and brickwork.