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Chinaman’s Beach House by Fox Johnston (now Studio Johnston)

This was one of those rare, practice-defining projects that doesn’t so much land in your lap, but slowly takes you over. It was the first big house for our studio, then called Fox Johnston, and it probably took the longest time of all our houses to complete. Not because it was our most complex, but because co-director Emili Fox and I were young and took our time with it, and because the brief evolved so significantly.

We started work on Chinaman’s Beach House (see 84) in 2006

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