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75 Myrtle Street

Wandering the streets of Chippendale, it would be very easy to pass by the facade of Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s (TZG) latest interior project without giving the building a second glance. A handsome early-twentieth-century brick factory, like so many found within the old industrial neighbourhoods of Sydney, its perfunctory street presence doesn’t give much away of what lies behind the steel and glass portal.

The 75 Myrtle Street project is no ordinary warehouse conversion. It is in fact, quite exceptional. It was not conceived as a speculative development project, nor for a tech or design start-up.

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