Adaptive reuse of Building 13 as a café was completed in 2007 as part of the Blaxland Riverside Park, within the historic Newington Armory precinct at Sydney Olympic Park. When Building 13 was destroyed by fire in November 2007, Sydney Olympic Park Authority (SOPA) engaged lahznimmo architects to design a new café on the site of the original.

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Architects: Lahznimmo Architects

Location: Sydney NSW, Australia

Area: 200.0 sqm

Project Year: 2008

Photographs: Brett Boardman

Client: Sydney Olympic Park Authority (SOPA)

Builder: Inten

Structural Consultant: Taylor Thomson Whitting

Mechanical Consultant: Services Integration Management
Electrical Consultant: Shelmerdines Consulting Engineers

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From the architect. Adaptive reuse of Building 13 as a café was completed in 2007 as part of the Blaxland Riverside Park, within the historic Newington Armory precinct at Sydney Olympic Park. When Building 13 was destroyed by fire in November 2007, Sydney Olympic Park Authority (SOPA) engaged lahznimmo architects to design a new café on the site of the original.

Plan

The Armory Wharf provides striking 270 degree views across the Parramatta River to mangroves and the post-industrial working wharf landscape. The new...