Adelphi Hotel

A small 34 room boutigue hotel in the heart of the city's art and business precinct, the Adelphi is recognized as an award-winning architectural icon, designed by the architectural firm of Denton Corker Marshall, which was founded in Melbourne in 1972 and has offices in Sydney, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, London and Warsaw.

The hotel was a conversion of a former rag trade building, where the existing form and overall character was retained, with the new works being treated as inserted elements. The new elements, stainless steel, aluminium, translucent glass, timber veneered panels and coloured planar surfaces, reinforce the new versus the old. On the exterior, colour becomes prominent, with elements in vibrant blues, greens, yellows, oranges and reds overlaid on the natural cement grey render tones. A unique feature is the 270 ft. (25 m.) long glass-fronted swimming pool which reaches out over the street at roof-top level.