Inventory: Travel / Sydney
Staying power
There’s far more to a hotel than a place to sleep, as Singapore-based Capella Hotels’ ambitious Australian debut proves. We check in to find out more.
At the heart of Capella Sydney, the Harbour City’s most ambitious new hotel in years, there’s a plant-filled oasis called Aperture. Today guests and Sydneysiders are busy ordering coffee under a constellation of flowers created by Amsterdam-based designers Studio Drift. But Make Architects’ Michelle Evans, who led the painstaking restoration of the 107-year-old sandstone building, tells Monocle that the site looked rather different when the project started seven years ago.
Tasked with designing “the best hotel in the world”, Evans began with a…
