The ocean-facing home with mystique and stunning views on every level |
The ocean-facing home with mystique and stunning views on every level
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The Pacific Ocean offers an endless blue horizon for occupants of a newly built Newcastle home, which cascades over five levels towards the sea and shelters its occupants from howling winds and torrential coastal rain.
Bob Dylan could have easily composed his song, Shelter from the Storm, sitting in the multi-level house overlooking the Cowrie Hole surf break and the ocean.
But for its architects, from the firm Curious Practice, it wasn’t Dylan’s song that intrigued them about the project. Rather they were thinking of ways to create a great family home on the long narrow site, about five metres in width, that plunges into a substantial 10-metre drop-off midway through.
What could best replace the worker’s cottage on the site, its roof cavity filled with Mr Fluffy asbestos? Curious Practice saw an opportunity to create a home with two very different ends, both with street........