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TINY TOWN

THE PROJECT

MRTN Architects, Brave New Eco, SBLA and Lew Building collaborated on this project in Melbourne's Westgarth for a couple and their three teenage children.

When now Melbourne-based architect Antony Martin was a teen in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, he was good mates with celebrated architect Marshall Cook's kids, and invited to their home in Parnell's Brighton Road all the time.

“I used to have a second life around there, and it really stuck with me that when you went in through their front door, it was like a piazza, and all these living spaces looked down over it,” he says. “When it came to doing this

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