The Revy | PTW Architects and Design 5 Architects

It’s been an enlightening and rewarding journey working on the transformation of The Revy, Pyrmont’s Grade One listed waterfront landmark by architect Walter Liberty Vernon. Built circa 1912, the eight storey Royal Edward Victualling Yard, Building C (The Revy), now comprises 44 residences, including one north-facing penthouse. Two storey townhouses sit within the rusticated basalt base, with generous double height spaces allowing full appreciation of the original volumes. The requirement to accommodate six apartments per core in this very narrow footprint, required an external core expression that would contrast with the existing brick building, but also not visually dominate. The two new external glass cores are placed on Darling Island Road, while the waterfront façade remains largely unaltered but for small, discrete and delicate insertions. New openings and new balconies, sympathetic to the original design assisted the adaptive re-use to apartment living.