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Pip Cheshire

IT WAS A HIGH NOON MOMENT, the sun hanging high, gazing down from a cyan sky on autumnal poplars arrayed like flaming Roman candles across the brown hills. We were 20 farm gates south of Twizel, in a cul-de-sac valley opening to the lake, an arc of kennels, empty and silent, and a scruffy house with a shimmering cast-iron stove and a supine rabbit reclining in a bed of onions. Sometime later, a Hilux wound its way down a farm track. We stood on the hard scrabble open ground; the driver’s door swung open and a large hand came towards me, its shadow sharp on the packed clay underfoot. Its owner was obscured by the late-afternoon sun peering over his shoulder: “you’d be the boys from Auckland then”. It wasn’t a…

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Architecture NZ (Digital) - 1 Issue, July-August 2024

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