Urban Designer - Vernacular Architect - Maritime Planner - Owner-Builder - Servant of Piglet - Educator - Author - Revolutionary - Peacenik - Tour Guide 

Tony Watkins

 ~ Vernacular Design 

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A place to belong Print E-mail

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Photo by Dean Purcell
For some the choice to live in a particular area has more to do with philosophy than proximity to the workplace. Alan Perrott visits three Auckland communities where neighbourhood watch takes on a whole new meaning.

 

 

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Karaka Bay vs the killjoys Print E-mail

ImageFor thirty years Tony Watkins has lived in his organic, ever evolving house at Karaka Bay in Auckland's eastern suburbs. Here he writes about what it means to belong to the bay.

 

Photographs by Simon Devitt.

 

 

 

 

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