Hancock Architects Brings Gold Glamour to a Centuries-Old Church in Sydney
By Colleen Curry
Tanya Hancock had been in the architecture business for 20 years when a client came to her with a relatively standard request: His Sydney, Australia, apartment was in need of a facelift. The not-so-standard part? It was located in a 140-year-old church. The client wanted to use the 3,400-square-foot, five-level apartment as a getaway from his intense career as a corporate advisor, a personal refuge where he could relax and enjoy life with his partner and adult son. The church had been deconsecrated in 1989, and the nave, chancel, and vestry converted into four residences shortly after. But this four-bedroom unit had a glaring flaw: the kitchen. “It was tiny, not suited to the scale of the architectural features of the church. Tucked away in the corner, it was U-shape and got congested easily,” says Hancock, who founded her namesake firm Hancock Architects in 2003.
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