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FIGURED OUT

It’s a familiar equation. Take one villa, add 100 years (give or take a few) and inevitably X = not fit for purpose. But the owners of this property in Sandringham, Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland could project beyond the mathematical to the magical, and even though they bid on it sight unseen, they weren’t flying blind. They knew it had the location. They knew it had the elevation. They knew it had a back garden that faced the right way. When architects Jessica Walker and Maggie Carroll

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