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ESCARPMENT HOUSE BY VIRGINIA KERRIDGE ARCHITECT

In Richard Scarry’s books animals are anthropomorphized: pigs drive buses, foxes are policewomen and goats drive delivery trucks full of watermelons. I was reminded of these books one morning sitting in a park south of Sydney when a truck drove past loaded with topiary trees, like an escapee from . I was trying to collect some thoughts for a house I was about to visit and animals were on my mind. Virginia Kerridge, director of Virginia Kerridge Architect (VKA) and the

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