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    Ground Rules

    Jan 15, 2019 3 minutes
    TEXT BY Sam Eichblatt
    PHOTOS BY | @MATTHIEUSALVAING Matthieu Salvaing

    mbedded in the side of a valley in New Zealand’s Southern Alps, facing out over pristine Lake Wanaka, stands a new home meant to look as though it is part of the land around it. “It resembles the large schist rocks you see all over this region that are half-buried in the hillside and poke out at strange angles,” says Andrew Simpson of WireDog Architecture, the Wellington-based firm that designed it.

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