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

Tony Watkins

 ~ Vernacular Design 

No man is an island
Greg Blunden Print E-mail

ImageGreg Blunden entered my life as the Far North Representative of the QEII Trust. It was his task to evaluate Te Ohu as suitable for protection with a QEII Covenant.

 

 

 

 

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Catherine Casey Print E-mail
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John Strevens Print E-mail
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Brian and Mary Lythe Print E-mail
ImageBrian was with a group of us out on the West Coast. I invited Mary to join us. Brianand Mary met, spent the night in the sand dunes, and began a relationship which would enrich all our lives.
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Rowena Yalland Print E-mail
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Basil Hafoka Print E-mail
ImageIt was a very ordinary state house before Basil bought a brick kiln which was to be demolished. The metamorphosis goes on but any visitor to the wonderland would be hard pressed to find any sign of the original house.
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Eugene Wong Doe Print E-mail

Image Eugene trained as a pharmcist with my brother Clive, and we became close friends.

 

 

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John Tollemache Print E-mail
ImageI first met John when he came to the airport to farewell Mark, off to Nairobi on one of my craziest assignments. We had a lot in common. He loved flying up West Coast beaches just above the surf or finding archaological sites dotted around New Zealand which could best be seen from the air.