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SRG HOUSE BY FOX JOHNSTON

Architect Conrad Johnston’s new home in the Sydney suburb of Balmain is a confident synthesis of old and new that looks back and forward in time. The house is one of a pair of semis originally built in 1972 on a steep waterfront site on the Parramatta River, facing south to Iron Cove and west to Birkenhead Point. When the two residences were built, the site was owned by architect and sculptor Marr Grounds and his

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