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At home in the shed

There are mere handfuls of architectural firms in New Zealand with a wide enough body of residential work to allow one to compare and contrast, find similarities, and try to ascertain the places where motifs are being pulled and stretched in search of some sort of musicality.

Auckland-based RTA Studio is one of these, and this 290m² project, known as Bob's Cove House, on

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