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PIONEER STOCK

Project ‘Takatu’ house

Architect RTA Studio

Location Tawharanui Peninsula

Brief Build a bach for family and friends, one that will be passed down through the generations.

The view from this long, low red bach isn’t of white sand and pōhutukawa, but paddocks and sheep. It’s a bucolic, sheltered little spot, close enough to the beach yet far enough away that it doesn’t get gusts of afternoon wind.

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