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High and Dry

When Martin and Casey Johnston added a stand-alone studio to their property in a flood-prone region on the east coast of Australia, they baked disaster resilience into the design. They just didn’t expect to have its limits tested so soon.

Within a month of the project’s completion, a record-breaking flood inundated their quiet,

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