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VANTAGE POINT

una Park, the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House are Sydney icons and all are framed from this newly built fivelevel house. Designed by Tobias Partners, the property is sited on the water’s edge where it also borrows a view of architect Harry Seidler’s office, a striking mid-1970s concrete building in Milsons Point. This other iconic landmark was an important starting point for the owners, a couple with three children. “Our client once worked in this office. It not only inspired him but it was from one of its windows that he spotted this site many years ago,” says Richard Peters, a principal with Tobias Partners, who worked with architect and

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