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Vennell House site visit

HAPUA STREET, REMUERA 17 MARCH 2021

This was an afternoon organised by the Thursday Lunch Group, a group of architects which has met regularly since 1991, as a celebration of one of Group Architects’ founder Bill Wilson’s innovative houses, the Vennell House. Attendees included architects Marshall Cook and Claire Chambers, architectural historian Julia Gatley, former owner Kate Vennell, the new and Julia Gatley’s , were laid out on view as recordings of the Vennell House, built in 1967.

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