Environa Studio
Sydney’s Kings Cross in the 1960s was an eclectic cacophony of tourism, entertainment, a red-light district and illegal casinos and drugs. When Reverend Ted Noffs established the Wayside Chapel in 1964, it provided a small but much-needed support facility for the disaffected youth who had gravitated toward the Cross and to whom society had turned a blind eye.
The Wayside, as it is affectionately known, quickly became a vital institution for the community in and around Kings Cross. Originally occupying two rooms in a low-rise apartment block at 29 Hughes Street, it quickly grew to accommodate a chapel, a coffee shop, a crisis centre, the first office for the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs and a theatre designed by celebrated Sydney architect John James. By the 1970s Wayside had
