Conceived as Ace Hotel's first Australian outpost and its southernmost property globally, the 264-room Sydney address is housed within a pair of buildings on Bourke Street in Surry Hills — a restored 1920s brick warehouse joined to a purpose-built contemporary tower clad in dark steel and planted terraces. Tzannes Associates handled the architecture, while Atelier Ace collaborated with Sydney-based Flack Studio on the interiors, a pairing that kept the work grounded in local sensibility rather than importing a readymade aesthetic from Portland or New York. The lobby makes its intentions clear from the first moment: raw brick arches, exposed concrete columns, and Douglas fir ceiling grids inset with globe pendants frame a floor of deep red marble, while generous leather banquette seating — crinkled and well-worn in tone if not yet in age — anchors the room in the register of a lived-in social club rather than a hotel arrival sequence. Guest rooms carry the same material restraint, their walls clad in speckled cork-like acoustic panels, oak headboards keeping company with low upholstered window seats in forest green or teal velvet, terracotta carpet running underfoot. Record players and acoustic guitars signal the brand's long association with music culture. At the rooftop bar, terrazzo-splashed wall panels and blue-cushioned banquettes open toward tree-lined Surry Hills rooftops — a room that feels genuinely of this city rather than imposed upon it.

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Ace Hotel Sydney reanimates the historical Tyne Building in Surry Hills, built above Australia’s first kiln discovery. Inspired by the rich history of Surry Hills and the warm, cinematic color palette of the Australian landscape, the hotel marks Ace’s first stake in the Southern Hemisphere and was designed in partnership with Flack Studio. The building’s design merges the past with the present, stirred by the city’s rough-hewn history: the renegade razor gangs that ruled the 1920s, the modernist art boom of the 1960s, the Gay Solidarity Group protests of the 1970s and the vibrant cultural coalescence of generations of migrant communities. LOAM, a neighborhood spot for natural fare, anchors the lobby level along with café Good Chemistry, plus there’s a bar smackdab in the hotel’s lobby. Up top there’s Kiln, an 18th-floor rooftop restaurant and bar helmed by Beau Clugston, with a design by Fiona Lynch. Ace Sydney is a neighborhood place, with an invitation open to all