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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Royce Kurmelovs

‘Floats above the landscape’: the architect whose designs touch the earth lightly

The Ball-Eastaway House
The Ball-Eastaway House, designed by Australian architect Glenn Murcutt. Photograph: Paul Lovelace/Alamy

The house teaches you things, Lynne Eastaway says. Today, a choir of cicadas fill the scrub with a rhythm that rises and falls. On other days, there may be visits from birds, goannas, echidnas, wombats, wallabies and kangaroos.

“The bush ends, and the house begins,” she says. “You’re not the centre; you’re just part of it. That’s the thing you learn.

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