Reaching for the light on a sand dune
A couple of years ago, on the way to my family bach at Opito Bay on the Coromandel Peninsula, I noticed a fairly extraordinary house rising from the dunes on Kuaotunu. Sitting prettily on a dune above one of the nicest swimming beaches on the Coromandel, it was obvious that something special was happening. It was long and low, and eventually, tall, pyramid-shaped towers rose out of the roof. And we all wondered quite what was happening.
“They’re modest people and they didn’t want to be too showy,” says architect Ken Crosson of the house, which our judges have named Home of the Year 2020. “They wanted something low
