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    Pete Bossley has designed a house that floats among the pōhutukawa on Takapuna beach.

    Oct 06, 2018 3 minutes
    Text: Penny Lewis

    Auckland’s Takapuna Beach looms large in the lives of the owners of this Bossley Architects-designed home. As a teenager, Helen Gillespie was a volunteer lifeguard at Takapuna, travelling over the Auckland Harbour Bridge from her childhood home in Westmere, a modernist house designed by her late father, architect Barton Gillespie of Wilson Moodie & Gillespie.

    Later, Gillespie headed off on her OE and met Canadian Jack Rosen. In 1977, she brought him home to New Zealand and Takapuna

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