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BACK TO THE FUTURE

THE VILLAGE OF Point Wells in New Zealand is surrounded on three sides by water, across the Whangateau Harbour from the beachside town of Omaha. It’s a sleepy, estuarine place: one road in, one road out; big trees, a store and some lovely chunks of tidal waterfront land. Twenty years ago, the owners of this new modern farmhouse designed by architects Aaron Paterson, Dominic Glamuzina and Steven Lloyd, reluctantly sold their old house beside the estuary and moved into Omaha — much more attractive to their teenage kids at the time. They then spent

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