Changing spaces

Two of Sydney’s most renowned cutting-edge design teams, Freedman Rembel and Durbach Block were commissioned to design a contemporary installation in the magnificently proportioned historic Dining Room and Drawing Room at Elizabeth Bay House.

Responding to a unique challenge, each firm transformed one of the Georgian rooms into a unique self-contained studio apartment. These dynamic contemporary designs proposed bold ideas for using historic buildings and explored ways of using and adapting historic buildings, stimulating discussion and thinking about the interpretation of historic interiors and their meaning to a contemporary society.