338 PITT STREET

338 Pitt Street is a mixed-use hotel, residential and retail development for central Sydney that will occupy nearly half a city block in Sydney’s mid-town precinct, with six podium buildings designed by four different architecture practices.

Featuring two interconnected 80-storey towers at its centre designed by FJMT Architects, the project was won through a City of Sydney Design Excellence Competition, with Aileen Sage alongside Trias and Polly Harbison, and the overall precinct design led by FJMT Architects with Martha Schwartz Partners.

Our podium building is a 4 storey commercial arcade with a rooftop garden pavilion. Both an edge and an entry, an object and a passageway, the arcade it is at once a habitat for the flaneur and a finely crafted jewel, with light reflected down a central void space spanning five levels and illuminating the retail spaces from within.

Accommodating the main entry into the site’s central courtyard from Liverpool street, the building draws visitors through a generous and playful series of arched forms, with retail and hospitality tenancies anchored off this central vertical and horizontal circulation spine.

Recognised as part of a larger city precinct, the masonry form is crowned with a eliptical metallic roof which hovers above a secluded rooftop garden and peeks over the edges of the laneway and street below.

Project Team: Amelia Holliday, Isabelle Toland, Eren Harding, Prudence Duncan, Janelle Woo

We acknowledge the Gadi people on whose country we work and create.

We also acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this Country and their continuing connection to culture, community, land, sea and sky. We pay our respect to Elders and Knowledge Holders past, present and future and express our gratitude for their continued sharing of knowledge and culture.