Mill Hill Church Conversion

For this luxury development on the site of Sydney’s last mill, BKA inserted two spacious apartments into the shell of a substantially intact early ecclesiastical Gothic church.

Two terrace houses were also built adjacent to the church. While the church apartments are inward-looking in design and intent, the new terraces are more expressive. All three volumes respond to the proportion, scale, and rhythm of their late Victorian and early Federation neighbours, yet they maintain a distinctly contemporary aesthetic.

Restrained colours and a shared palette of timber and stone bridge the divide between old and new, while lighting and landscaping additions breathe new life into the remaining historic fabric.