Inside the Hawke's Bay home of Ben Daly @palaceelectric, who rehabbed an original 1950s railway cottage in a process he calls slow architecture, taking apart the building and painstakingly putting it back together. It's not quite renovation, and it's not really new – there's a warmth to the result, a tactility that comes from being hand made. ⠀
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Old materials lend patina, while new insertions give the place a rough, honest texture. "I'm keen on the idea of memory, the life and stories of everyday buildings," he says. "I'm interested in seeing how much of that I can squeeze out and to show that architecture has a place here too." ⠀