The Architect · Noah · Sydney
Paddington Reservoir Gardens
This is my favourite piece of adaptive reuse in Sydney. They kept the old brick water chamber and dropped a garden into it — ruin and design in one move.
A 19th-century underground reservoir turned sunken garden. Brick vaults, iron columns, hanging green.
— Noah, The Architect
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