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Sydney’s inner-city neighbourhood of
Chippendale gets a long-awaited upgrade.
BY EMMA SLOLEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN LAURIEThe rooftop pool at the
Old Clare Hotel, a new
arrival in Chippendale.
To most Sydneysiders, the former
working-class enclave of Chippendale
was a nondescript area easily
overlooked in favour of the posh, beachy
eastern suburbs. But just as its
neighbours—Surry Hills, Redfern, and
Darlinghurst—have been transformed
by gentrification, so too has a creative
scene come to Chippendale’s once
rough-and-tumble streets. >>