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    ELM TREE PLACE BY EASTOP ARCHITECTS

    Sep 28, 2020 4 minutes
    Words by Marcus Baumgart
    Photography by Rory Gardiner

    Eastop Architects is a Melbourne-based practice led by architects Liam Eastop and Lauren Trainor, established in 2017. Despite the studio’s youth, it has produced in Elm Tree Place a work of considerable maturity, nuance and, literally and figuratively, reflection.

    Elm Tree Place is a residence that converts an early adaptation project by celebrated architect Nonda Katsalidis, the Deutscher Fine Art Gallery in Carlton, Melbourne. Katsalidis’s project, completed in the 1980s, was a gallery space built at the rear of a Victorian terrace and Eastop Architects’ work splits that commercial property into two private dwellings. Stepping into such

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