An IKEA desk and SKI wooden provide working accommodations in the study, overlooking the main living space.
Helen Street by mw|works
Laurelhurst Residence
The brutalist council estate to the rear is viewed as a found-object artwork through a new cast-concrete and stark white frame.
Renovation
Fed up with flashy, environmentally insensitive beach homes, architect Gerald Parsonson and his wife, Kate, designed a humble hideaway nestled behind sand dunes along the New Zealand coastline. Crafted in the image of a modest Kiwi bach, their 1,670-square-foot retreat consists of a group of small buildings clad in black-stained pine weatherboards and fiber-cement sheets.