Ideas of culture and connectivity underpinned our design for the Gwynne Street Studio, a dynamic warehouse conversion in Cremorne in inner-city Melbourne. Within an art deco shell, we developed a new office for Create Company and a new studio for our own practice, with a shared boardroom and breakout space. We retained the brick bounding walls and steel trusses, but installed a transparent roof that floods the interior with light. Within, we imagined the interiors as a contemporary, unpretentious space that would encourage interaction, collaboration and creativity. The pared-back materials palette incorporates polished concrete floors, lime-washed ply, White Fantasy marble, and greenery from Glasshaus.