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Preceding pages: Redesigning this
high-end waterfront apartment
on Finger Wharf, Woolloomooloo
created a huge open-plan living
area. This maximises the view, and
ensures the apartment is well suited
to entertaining on a grand scale.
The project was designed by Justin
Quinlan and Jonathan Spicer of The
Quinlan Group.
Above: The formal living area
incorporates a bar clad in honed
limestone.

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Many projects start small and grow into
something much bigger, but few would be on
the scale of this project. It began with a proposed
kitchen remodel to a high-end waterfront apartment on Finger Wharf, Woolloomooloo, and
ended with an entire apartment refurbishment.
Managing director Justin Quinlan and
project architect Jonathan Spicer of The Quinlan
Group were initially contracted to design a new
kitchen for the new owners of the apartment.
“It soon became clear there were spatial
problems that couldn’t be fixed by simply
replacing the kitchen,” Quinlan says. “For

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example, there was a large area in the centre of
the apartment that seemed like wasted space.
It was too narrow to be a dining room, but too
wide for a corridor. It was also very dark, and
there was a library-study that took up space at
one side, blocking the view from the corridor.”
Quinlan says the project plan subsequently
grew in stages, eventually involving the gutting
of most of the apartment. Walls were removed,
the library-study and corridor disappeared, and
the kitchen was moved to the other side of the
building. This created one extra-large open-plan
living space.