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HOUSE IN DARLINGHURST BY TRIBE STUDIO

The building fabric of a city is a social, cultural and economic storyboard that we can use to read our historical relationship with our environment. Set low in a once industrial laneway in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Darlinghurst, this former electricity substation building tells a story of transition. Having moved on from being a working piece of infrastructure, it was adapted for commercial use and has for the past decade or so been used as a small office space. As the suburb

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