Finalists revealed – 2025 Interior Awards
See the thirty-one projects and three young influential designers that have been selected as finalists across 11 categories in the 2025 Interior Awards.
Welcome to the happy house
Two award-winning compact homes reimagine the double garage footprint, proving good design can create affordable, attainable and joyful spaces for living.
Meet Blum - Sponsor of the Interior Awards 2025
Blum has partnered with the Interior Awards programme for the past five years, first coming on board in 2020.
Yellow Post
This year’s winning Brick Bay Folly, Yellow Post, was unveiled last weekend at the Brick Bay Sculpture Park.
Architects, not Architecture debuts in New Zealand
Raphaela Rose attended the inaugural Architects, not Architecture event on Wednesday 2 April at Te Ao Mārama, Auckland War Memorial Museum, finding it to be a timely call to action for architects.
News
Architects, not Architecture debuts in New Zealand
Raphaela Rose attended the inaugural Architects, not Architecture event on Wednesday 2 April at Te Ao Mārama, Auckland War Memorial Museum, finding it to be a timely call to action for architects.
Yellow Post
This year’s winning Brick Bay Folly, Yellow Post, was unveiled last weekend at the Brick Bay Sculpture Park.
Paererewā: The 1,000-year bench project
Paererewā: The 1,000-year bench project was launched at the Aotearoa Art Fair Art Fair in Auckland.
New Zealand documentary to open Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival
DCA Architects of Transformation’s award-winning holiday home, The Chodge, will open the Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival in Auckland tomorrow night.
Projects
Houses revisited: Mt Maunganui house
Rogan Nash Architects designed this beachside holiday home to be considerate of its space in nature and surrounding neighbours. First published in 2015.
Welcome to the happy house
Two award-winning compact homes reimagine the double garage footprint, proving good design can create affordable, attainable and joyful spaces for living.
Houses revisited: Pauanui holiday house
This bold holiday home designed by Kamermans & Co Architects features a renovated container as a bedroom. the First published in 2011.
Review
Exhibition: Building an archive of Indigenous architecture: Joar Nango and collaborators
Elisapeta Heta reviews Building an archive of Indigenous architecture: Joar Nango and collaborators, a powerful reclamation of space.
Book review: The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education
Lynda Simmons reviews The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education, a book aimed at students, educators and practitioners insistent on change.
Itinerary City Guide: Levin
In this Itinerary, supported by Dulux Colours of New Zealand, Andrew Barrie tours 14 resilient buildings in Levin.
Practice
Joining forces for good
In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, the 2024 Gold Medal recipients Hugh Tennent and Ewan Brown reflect on the their collaborative architectural practice.
Radical responsibility
In the latest of our Practice in Profile series supported by Resene, ahha, a socially responsible architecture practice, discusses its aims and aspirations.
Artificially clever
Anthony Brand encourages a group of third-year architectural students to seek out AI tools that might help them design more efficiently, effectively and innovatively.
Awards
Winners revealed: Canterbury Architecture Awards 2025
Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects has announced the winners of this year’s Canterbury Architecture Awards.
Watch the live stream: Interior Awards 2025
Watch live from 9am on Wednesday 21 May as the Interior Awards finalists present their projects live to the jury.
People
Cartoon - Malcolm Walker ‘Upcoming seminars…’
Cartoonist and architect Malcolm Walker gives us his thoughts on the issues that matter.
Challenging gender norms in architecture
Josh Sanoria, winner of the 2024 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Resene Student Design Awards, explains his escapist, explorative thesis, Queeriosities of Space.
On death and the sublime
Pip Cheshire considers the challenges associated with judging a building, including assessing its ‘smell’.
The politics of the architect’s narrative
Opinion: Karamia Müller believes stories about architecture need to examine power, displacement and capital.