WOOLLOOMOOLOO FINGER WHARF
Project Description
Conservation & Adaptive Reuse
Location
Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney
Timeline
1998 – 2000
Built in 1911-1915 by the Sydney Harbour Trust, the Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf is a massive timber frame building of state and national significance and was a working wharf until its closure in the 1970s.
In 1998-2000 an extensive conservation and adaptive reuse project was completed to convert the wharf structure into a hotel at the south end (currently the Ovolo Hotel) and apartments at the north end. Letizia Coppo, with Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners, was project leader responsible for design and project management of heritage site works.
Exterior view of Wharf 8 at the North end of the wharf
Eastern side with repaired gantry, cargo doors and new apartments above
Main entrance from Cowper Wharf Road with wharves 6 and 9 flanking the entry
Eastern side before conservation works c2000
Existing cargo conveyors
Western promenade with apartments, transept and hotel/restaurants