Eastern shore
In an east Auckland suburb, overlooking a pretty stretch of shelly beach, sits a striking new home. Surrounded by ’50s baches, ’90s plaster monoliths, and everything else in between, it’s the most impressive house on the laid-back street.
It’s also almost certainly the only home in New Zealand with a connection to a 1960s monastery 18,700km away. Sainte Marie de la Tourette, a modernist concrete priory on a hillside in Lyon, France, was Le Corbusier’s epic final project. The way the
