It is not often that holiday houses in the Fleurieu Peninsula feature in the Australian Financial Review's architectural section, either as illustrations of contemporary architectural design or for sale. We are talking about the top end of the national market and the Fleurieu Peninsula just doesn't cut it.

Gary Sauer-Thompson, weekender, Port Elliot, 2007

This house did. It is an example of the top end of the weekender market. It has sea views across the bay. It's modernist style and size represents the shift away from the modest beach shack of yesteryear.

The wooden beach shacks in prime locations are being bulldozed to make way for the air conditioned new:

Gary Sauer-Thompson, weekender, Port Elliot, 2007

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