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Opportunity Knocks

Homeowners Rose and Nick engaged Curious Practice to design a new door for their Newcastle home, wanting to open up the house and promote an indoor-outdoor connection. However, a newish concrete slab was observed as starting to fall away. The area is renowned for underground mine workings, but this property had not been mapped. The property was investigated and the existing house had to be demolished to enable remediation works to the site.

Rose and Nick,

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