Community Restorative Centre, Chippendale

The Community Restorative Centre (CRC) provide a range of support services to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families and friends.

They also live in this former bank, dating from 1933, on the corner of Broadway & Shephard Street, Chippendale in Sydney, NSW.

Hotel Broadway, Chippendale

Thankfully when they converted part of this Art Deco pub in Sydney into apartments (and added some more onto the roof) they kept the old Hotel Broadway sign.

It is still a pub, well there is a cafe/bar on the ground floor and the building is in a prime location on Broadway in Chippendale.

I didn't have time even to pop across and look inside but I imagine anything deco would have been stripped from the public areas.

Pioneer House, Chippendale

Broadway in Chippendale was widened in the early 1930s leading to a series of Art Deco style buildings being constructed.

Pioneer House, designed in 1934 by Wright & Apperly, is one such building.

The ground floor has been altered so there is no longer a bank or the shops opening onto the street. I don't know if the decoration has been modified from the original installation but the colour scheme is a bit dull for me.

The decoration along the roofline, on the other hand, is stunning, especially when lit by the mid-winter late afternoon Sydney sunshine.

There are several different decorative panels and each spandrel has a series of ridges and bars. There is decoration above the windows including a shaft of triangular windows stretching amost the height of the building from the central entrance.

References:
Pioneer House Significance Statement, Heritage Branch, Dept of Planning, NSW
Deco-Blog, DecoWorks Pty Ltd

Abercrombie Hotel, Chippendale

I don't know why you would rename a hotel but at least the old name is still on the top of the Art Deco curved facade.

This is The Abercrombie Hotel on the edge of the former Carlton & United Breweries Old Kent Brewery site in Chippendale, formerly called the Australian Hotel. According to gdaypubs.com.au it was built in 1937 after the road had been widened and renamed Broadway.

The old CUB site is subject to a major redevelopment by Frasers Property and for the time being is called Frasers Broadway.

The hotel is due to close in mid-January 2010 to allow redevelopment of the site. It has been recognised as a heritage building within the overall development and will be retained. According to the plans, a new building will be erected over the top of the hotel but the Art Deco lines of the Australian Hotel will be clearly delineated.

Although the new building will sit over the top of the hotel, it is proposed there will be a clearance of 4m. This artist's impression, from the Frasers Broadway website shows how the roof terrace at the Australian Hotel could look.