This project takes a fine but unusable Art Deco building in Sydney’s inner city, extensively restores, reworks and reconfigures it, then ‘returns to the people’ as a vibrant new food, design, architecture, film and arts hub. Built in 1940, Paramount House was Paramount Studio’s Sydney commercial offices, promotion & distribution centre, has had various attempts had been made over the years to reuse and rework the building, with little success. Architecturally, this project is more of an exercise in deconstruction than reconstruction. However, the new architecture is vital as it allows for a whole range of new and flexible uses: Paramount House is a well known inner city destination, housing a wonderful café, a boutique cinema and bar in the original screening room, a bike shop, a flower design business, and a gallery.