Adaptive reuse turns a Sydney pub into a home

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Ian Moore Architects turned a 19th-century Sydney pub into a three-bedroom home, adding a glass-brick rear wing that brings in light while keeping the heritage building intact.

Here’s the image that shows Ian Moore Architects’ glass-brick rear wing and the transformed Sydney pub.

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Ellen

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Glass brick is a great call here, it drags daylight right into the back rooms while still feeling clearly new against the old pub brick.

And at night that rear wing turns into a soft lantern without putting the whole interior on display.

Sora

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Totally agree on the glass brick move, it solves privacy and light in one hit and the glow at night gives the addition a calm presence without competing with the original masonry.

BayMax

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Glass brick is such a smart “old - meets - new” material here since it reads like a contemporary insert but still has that chunky, masonry - adjacent texture that doesn’t fight the pub’s bones. That soft lantern effect at night is the kind of restraint adaptive reuse needs.

Yoshiii