2024 NSW Architecture Awards
Congratulations to Candalepas Associates! The Porter House Hotel Project has won the Commercial Architecture Award and Heritage Award in the 2024 AIA NSW awards.
Designs that demonstrate a deep connection to context, whilst offering a unique and memorable guest experience.
2024 AIA NSW awards
Category: Commercial Architecture
The Porter House Hotel | Candalepas Associates | Award | The Gadigal People of the Eora Nation
Category: Heritage
The Porter House Hotel | Candalepas Associates | The Greenway Award | The Gadigal People of the Eora Nation
Design
Designed by award-winning architect Angelo Candalepas of Candalepas Associates, the brief was to give two buildings – the original 1876 five-story Porter House and the new Porter House Hotel – MGallery, an integrated design aesthetic that reflected effortless duality.
The brand new Porter House Hotel – MGallery pays homage to its original site by incorporating modern takes on orginal features, including contemporary curved windows that reference the building’s historical brick archways. Soft curves and arcs are an interior and exterior theme, supple leather detailing is used throughout as an ode to its former incarnation as a leather merchant, while lamps are playfully mismatched – one vintage, one modern – to symbolise the immersion of heritage and modernity
