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    Inside Story

    Aug 05, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS SHARON STEPHENSON
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    ANDREW QUERNER

    IT WAS LOVE THAT BROUGHT Wellington-born architect Mark Ritchie to Canada. But it’s work that’s kept him there.

    The love part came in the form of wife Lisa Mingo, a Canadian he met in Singapore in 1998 (the couple has two sons, now 15 and 12). The work component is Architecture Building Culture, the firm Ritchie (51) started with an American colleague in 2011.

    From his office in Vancouver, the snow-quilted North Shore mountains filling his windows, Ritchie lends his talents to small-scale commercial, single-family and affordable housing. His seven-person

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