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rom its façade, there is little to indicate that the house known as Il Nido – the nest or nursery in Italian – conceals within itself a mass of contradictions. On a footprint of only 108 square metres, the house has an unexpected vertical axis with a basement dug out of the ancient blue stone of Melbourne and a first floor with city views. Originally a worker’s cottage built in

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