The Hat Factory
                        28 DEC 2021 BY
                        ARCHIFYNOW 
                    
                    Firm
                                Welsh + Major
                                                            Location
                                Newtown, NSW
                                                            Photography
                                Anthony Basheer
                                                                                
                        
                            The Hat Factory, built on Gadigal Land, has survived fire, police invasion, and countless parties…..It’s been a hat factory, a printers, a squat and a ‘social-centre’. Now it enters a new phase of its life.
                                                                                            
                    
                                        
                    
The Hat Factory unpicks the romantic ideal of living in a warehouse – the 2 dwellings are permeable rather than hermetic – they are more like a pair of glass houses held within a masonry slipper than loft style apartment building. As vessels for knowledge they retain memories of the past, at the same time offering a way to deliver compact, flexible urban living into the future.







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This article originally appeared in welshmajor.com
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