# Adaptive reuse turns a Sydney pub into a home

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adaptive-reuse-turns-a-sydney-pub-into-a-home/680372>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [April 12, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adaptive-reuse-turns-a-sydney-pub-into-a-home/680372 "2026-04-12T18:00:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ellen1979](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ellen1979/32/31260_2.png) [@Ellen1979](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ellen1979)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adaptive-reuse-turns-a-sydney-pub-into-a-home/680372/1 "2026-04-12T18:00:34Z")

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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.

> **[Ian Moore Architects transforms Sydney pub into house with "wall of light"](https://www.dezeen.com/2026/04/12/ian-moore-architects-corner-store/)**
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> Ian Moore Architects has transformed a 19th-century pub in Sydney into The Corner House, a home with a rear wing clad in glass bricks.

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

 ![the-corner-store-residential-extension-ian-moore-architects-surry-hills-sydney-australia-architecture_dezeen_2364_col_1_square-411x411](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/2/c/2cc41d645a5fa3186e287a61bce66d88c8d09b2a.jpeg)  
Ellen

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**Author:** ![sora](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/sora/32/31259_2.png) [@sora](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sora)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adaptive-reuse-turns-a-sydney-pub-into-a-home/680372/2 "2026-04-12T18:07:21Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Baymax](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/baymax/32/31153_2.png) [@Baymax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Baymax)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adaptive-reuse-turns-a-sydney-pub-into-a-home/680372/3 "2026-04-13T01:21:21Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Yoshiii](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/yoshiii/32/31156_2.png) [@Yoshiii](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Yoshiii)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 1:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adaptive-reuse-turns-a-sydney-pub-into-a-home/680372/4 "2026-04-13T01:42:25Z")

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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