“We are obsessed with detail – and I think you can see that in this project,” says Architects EAT director Albert Mo. The project in question is Alfred Stables, a compact but hard-working conversion of a 150-year-old former industrial building at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne’s inner south-east.
With a lower level in bluestone and two upper levels in red brick, the building began life as stables before becoming a workshop space for restoring hospital equipment. When the hospital sought to bring together its executive and administrative personnel into a single space, it