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Big yet small, and new yet old on the Akaroa waterfront

Throw a stone from the deck of this holiday house designed by Aaron Paterson and Liz Tjahjana of PAC Studio, and you’ll hit a landmark. Daly’s Wharf, Akaroa’s oldest surviving wharf, projects from the nearby seawall into Children’s Bay, terminating in a little shelter with an orange turret roof.

Paterson and Tjahjana – who designed the house in association with Dom Glamuzina of Glamuzina Architects – spent many hours on this wharf during the early design phase, contemplating how they could arrange a large, two-storey house across the

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