Brisbane hospital outbuilding transformed into A$4.45M home

Pic credit: Domain.com.au Ask people in the neighbourhood what 24 Brisbane Street used to be, and most will remember it as something else. The property is now a five-bedroom home, but for years it was a hospital outbuilding, a working space with a purpose that had little to do with family dinners or weekend pool parties. Over time, it was reshaped, rebuilt and rethought until it became a place people actually live. The five-bedroom home in Annerley has finally found a buyer. Set on an elevated 1,008 sq m allotment, the home has sold for A$4.45 million, setting a suburb record, The Courier-Mail reported.Pic credit: Domain.com.auA home with an industrial heritagePic credit: Domain.com.auThe first thing you notice at 24 Brisbane Street is the roof. Its sawtooth peaks throw light across hardwood floors recycled from older buildings. Nothing about the space looks as though it was built in one go. It looks like a building that has lived several lives. And it indeed has. It used to be a hospital outbuilding before architect Ric DeLuca turned it into ‘an extraordinary inner-city residence’, according to the listing on Domain.com.au. The architect did not gut-renovate it. Instead, he retain...