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Rhythm and green

Entrance to this house, designed by Dorrington Atcheson Architects, is by way of a meticulously landscaped pathway. The journey takes the visitor from the street elevation, which pays heed to a contemporary rhythm with its black vertical cedar cladding system and screens whose curvature and different heights play with volume and proportion, around a black brick wall into an extensive entrance garden.

It’s here the beauty and symbiosis of landscape and architecture come into their own. A large eave provides shelter while

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