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“We had an existing relationship with the developers Stu and Mel Pinfold, who live across the road,” says Louise Wright of Assembly Architects, which designed ‘Stackbrae’, a 31-house subdivision just outside Wanaka. “They wanted to create a well-designed subdivision without slowing things down. So we came up with a new development model.”
How is Stackbrae different to other subdivisions?
This story is from the August 2018 edition of HOME.
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