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TIERNEY DRIVE HOUSE BY ME

The first thing to note about this fine house by architecture practice ME is the subtlety with which it occupies its address in Currumbin Waters on the Gold Coast. Facing the street is a series of low walls: timber giving way to carefully punctuated fields of concrete block. The trees at the back of the site loom over a low roof profile that belies the generous scale of the dwelling below it. In a city famous for its gauche towers and bloated houses, the moves made in the design of ME’s Tierney Drive House to secure privacy and foster

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