social living experiment

 

PHOTO: LAWRENCE SMITH/HOMED Side-by-side living works perfectly for architect friends Jane Aimer and Lindley Naismith, who built these adjoining townhouses in Newmarket 10 years ago, almost as a ‘social experiment’.

A large detached family home in the suburbs is all very well, but what if there was a better, more social way to live?

Ten years ago, architect friends and colleagues Jane Aimer and Lindley Naismith of Scarlet Architects in Auckland decided to do just that.

They openly call it a “social experiment” – building two symmetrical townhouses in the heart of Newmarket, with connecting elements.

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