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MELLOW DRAMA

A theatre of the environment. That’s what architect Daniel Marshall calls this multi-level pavilion house that cedes to the bush in a remote corner of Waiheke Island — and as in the theatre, there’s plenty of drama to sustain the narrative, plus a backstory that provides layers of richness to the foundations.

The first official document of European ownership of land at Waikopou Bay on the eastern end of Waiheke is in 1837, but it wasn’t until almost seven

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