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Coastal Communion

How much do you really need for a weekend retreat? That’s the question Ben Edwards, architect and director of Studio Edwards, asked when designing his holiday home. It needed to be warm in winter and cool in summer, but otherwise “it was about the amazing view and having a fireplace, bed and a cosy chair,” he says. “And all you can hear is the ocean.”

Ben’s weekend retreat, House 28, sits on a steep forested slope in

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