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Set Sail

On the Queensland, Spinnaker House appears like a billowing sail tethered to a windswept hillside. It is the mastery of Sunshine Coast architect Dan Sparks, founding director of Sparks Architects, whose work is dotted along Australia’s eastern coast, concentrated between Hervey Bay and Brisbane. Owners and European expatriates, Goran and Natasha commissioned Dan to design the home with the ambition to “live in a way that embraced and celebrated this climate and place”.

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