A new family home was inspired by Denmark’s concrete wartime bunkers and pays homage to Jorn Utzon. It combines hygge, the Danish word for comfort, with a love of concrete construction.
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Cobargo project: How local Santa got his home back
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The only things to survive 2019’s New Year’s Eve bushfires at the home of Cobargo’s Santa and retired volunteer firefighter Dave Rugendyke and his wife Barbara were the wooden reindeer that now limp - not prance - along the front fence.
“There was just nothing, nothing,” Mrs Rugendyke said of what was left when they returned to the home far down NSW’s South Coast where they had fostered 100 children in the past decade. “Everything was black.”
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Peter Stutchbury, winner of the Australian Institute of Architects’ prestigious Gold Medal in 2015, was born in Sydney in 1954. Though he lived for most of his childhood on the city’s North Shore, he also took advantage of the fact that he had relatives in rural NSW. Visiting them as often as possible, he developed an affinity with the land.
By the time he was a teenager, this love of the outdoors had extended to the ocean. He was a keen surfer and spent as much time as he could travelling the East Coast of Australia looking for the next big storm swell.
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