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Off the beaten track

Call it the Bilbao effect. Since the opening of the spectacular Len Lye Centre at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery — with its rippling stainless-steel façade — four years ago, New Plymouth has undergone some pretty radical changes. In particular, in the few blocks of the West

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