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ALMORA HOUSE BY TONKIN ZULAIKHA GREER

This is a new house on an old site. Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s clients have lived here for many years, gradually adding to and refashioning the original house (which this new work completely replaces) to reflect their changing needs. In this sense, they have had the luxury of time shaping their brief, bringing to this exquisitely constructed Mosman house more than two decades of lessons about how they wish to live here.

Designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer’s director Tim Greer and project architect Belinda Pajkovic (now director of Atoma Architecture and Design), the house coalesces around three devices:

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