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    REDFERN WAREHOUSE BY IAN MOORE ARCHITECTS

    Sep 30, 2019 3 minutes
    Words by Casey Bryant
    Photography by Rory Gardiner

    Many people dream of living in a converted warehouse. They imagine spaciousness, high ceilings, roof trusses and old bricks. One young family searched Sydney for six years before finding such a building in Redfern, only to discover that – like most warehouses – it had some serious drawbacks.

    West-facing and uninsulated, the building was blisteringly hot in summer and freezing through winter. The noise of rain on the raw tin roof was so deafening that conversations had to be abandoned when a storm rolled in and an unsympathetic nineties renovation

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