Architect: Cox Architecture Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Courtesy of Cox Architecture
The Darling hotel is located within the dense and historic 18/19th Century context of Pyrmont – a peninsula which once provided Sydney with its industrial docklands. It has undergone significant urban renewal in the course of the last two decades similar to docklands in many cities across the globe. The site itself had managed to remain vacant for some 15 years since the decommissioning and demolition of the Switching Station which it previously accommodated. The switch gear serving the once adjacent Pyrmont Power Station, a site now occupied by the Star Casino complex.
