WORLD ARCHITECTURE / Bondi, Australia

EXCELLENCE IN READAPTIVE—Often the temptation—especially among young architects—is to take an older building and remuddle it into modernism by destroying its vintage character.  Not so with Australia’s MPR Design Group, who achieved two main goals with a 2010 project in the City of Bondi.  First, they maintained a great looking retail façade and two, created a dramatic and wholly contemporary rooftop penthouse for the next millennium.  Pictures tell the 

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Source: MPR Design Group, East Sydney, NSW 2010

http://www.mprdg.com