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GLASSBOOK HOUSE BY SIBLING ARCHITECTURE

In the sunbaked inner west of Sydney, Tempe is about as far from Paris as one can imagine. Yet inspiration from the city of love has found its way to these streets, in the transformation of a worker’s cottage from the Federation era.

But more on Paris later. This is a story of homecoming and new horizons: a literary academic retiring to Sydney engages one of Melbourne’s most talented emerging practices (Sibling Architecture) for its first Sydney commission.

The client had bought the two-bedroom brick house near Tempe Station to

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