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Quietly Crafted

itting on one of inner Melbourne’s heritage streetscapes is this warehouse conversion by Rob Kennon Architects. The building has had several lives since it was built in 1860: first occupied by industrial tenants, it then became a store for furniture emporium Ackman’s (from which the project gets its

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