25hours Hotel The Olympia is a major adaptive-reuse project of a former Oxford Street cinema into a 109-room lifestyle hotel in Paddington, Sydney, preserving heritage character while introducing a new architectural landmark.
The development retains the original theatre façade, with a new structure built behind it to house the hotel, multiple food and beverage venues and rooftop activation. The project required significant coordination on heritage controls, site access, and construction sequencing within a constrained inner-city footprint.
The project team included Central Element and Boston Global, Interior design and architecture firm, TZG, Architects Indyk, and interior design studio Woods Baggot.
Located at 1 Oxford Street, Paddington, the site sits at the intersection of five high-density precincts, including Paddington, Surry Hills and Darlinghurst, an area undergoing rapid regeneration and investment.
Exclusive for The Urban Developer TUD+ Members, this site tour led by Central Element will explore:
- The vision and commercial framework behind converting a heritage theatre into a hotel asset
- Structural and engineering responses used to integrate new building elements behind the retained façade
- Heritage requirements, approvals processes and key constraints in the delivery
- Construction methodologies used on a tight urban footprint
- Market positioning, occupancy expectations and long-term asset strategy
Only forty (40) places are available — register quickly to ensure you don’t miss out.
With limited availability, we kindly request that if you register but are unable to attend, please let us know so your place can be offered to another participant.
