Paramount House Hotel

A hotel is the latest program to be added to the mix at Paramount House, a multifunctional hub of Surry Hills grooviness. The complex already contains a high-end co-working space, a bar and retro cinema, private offices and a purveyor of specialty coffee and the next in line is a rooftop recreation club. With Paramount House Hotel, the owners broke out of the iconic former Paramount Pictures distribution centre (built in 1940) and into the site next door. Breathe Architecture’s hotel reworks a less architecturally dramatic (but still heritage listed) brick warehouse. Thus, Paramount House is expanding, reaching out its tendrils, meshing with and enhancing this gritty industrial and increasingly hip part of town.

Hipness is important to Paramount House’s owner, Ping Jin Ng, as demonstrated by the patience and care with which he