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Completed in 2021 in Omaui, New Zealand. Images by Ben Ruffell. The brief was to make the most of a rural site with coastal views and an abundance of wildlife.on a very small budget. The design evolved over the.
Mountain Scene
By GUY WILLIAMS
A Queenstown architect has won the ‘Green Home of the Year’ award at Home Magazine’s Home of the Year award.
Stacey Farrell, who picked up the award in person at the ceremony in Auckland a fortnight ago, says when she saw the names of the other architects short-listed, she felt like she was
‘‘in with the big guns’’.
The award’s for the ‘Coast House’ she and cinematagrapher husband, Ben Ruffell, built in Omaui, between Invercargill and Bluff.
They completed the house about a year ago, seven years after she began design work on