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HOUSE IN THE GARDEN BY SAM CRAWFORD ARCHITECTS

For many people, grand designs equate to bigger builds. The insatiable desire for more square metres typically sees the green spaces within the boundaries of many Australian properties squeezed out and rendered useless as treeless patches of grass. The starting point for Sam Crawford Architects’ House in the Garden was the very opposite of this scenario. The premise of the project was that the house and the garden had to be in dialogue with each other. The result is a beautiful example of

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