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Chris Barton discusses the whys and wherefores of Warren and Mahoney’s design decisions for Auckland’s Commercial Bay office tower and retail precinct.
A nuanced understanding of the context’s colourful heritage, as well as its local quirks and character, is embedded in this neighbourly family home.
Warren and Mahoney’s Mat Brown and Nick Deans chat about a new multi-residential project for the firm in Melbourne and what it can teach us about apartment living here in Aotearoa.
Christopher Kelly looks at the socially equitable, Jasmax-designed 26 Aroha and discovers the beginnings of our own Aotearoan culture of living closer together.
Take a look inside Te Ao Mārama, the South Atrium of the Auckland museum, which has been closed for 18 months and prepares to open its doors to the public on 3 December.
Architect Jack McKinney was the lead designer for Ahi at Commercial Bay. In this collaboration with Warwick Fabrics, he discusses some of the material and fabric choices for this eatery.
From the archives: Visit a home on a steep Wellington site, in an old part of town, where Parsonson Architects have designed a clever townhouse.
Xsite Architects’ zinc-clad house in a conservative Auckland suburb, first published in March 2008, stretches out to the sun and sea.
Andrew Sexton’s reworked bach on the Wairarapa coast is appropriately resistant to modern pretensions in this project from the 2008 archives.
André Hodgskin reveals the many layers of complexity behind this campground-inspired home overlooking the Poor Knights Islands by Herbst Architects.
Designed for a family to share with their friends, this engaging coastal holiday house embodies a collective memory of time spent by the beach.
Chris Barton explores the religious expression embodied in the design of The Chapel of St Peter by Stevens Lawson Architects.
Soft boundaries create multipurpose spaces that reflect a young couple’s character while generous windows connect interiors with “domesticated wilds” around this home.
Taking cues from Maison de Verre – the “house of glass” – in Paris, the new addition to this home hosts a suite of tranquil living and reading spaces.
At her own Wanaka house, first published in 2008, Anne Salmond has turned simple sketched boxes into a comfortable home.
Fulton Ross Team Architecture’s Rangiora retreat relates to its site and local types, in this home that was featured in Houses magazine in 2008.
The original clients get back a Wellington house designed by the late Chris Brooke-White, one of the great characters of the 1970s, in this project feature from 2008.
Early New Zealand modernism, a respect for the sea views and a touch of golf inspired this pavilion – by architecture firm Box – on the shores of Mangawhai.
This house makes the most of a typical long, narrow suburban site, resulting in a family home whose grandest moments are stealthily concealed from the street.
Twin dwellings artfully coalesce in this flexible home, designed by Partners Hill with Hogg and Lamb, to provide a mother and son with moments of connection and agency.
A pared-back, utilitarian bach on Kawau Island by Crosson Architects draws on the quintessential shed typology for its inspiration.
Wellington architect Hugh Tennent demonstrates his sensitive craft in the Marlborough Sounds in this home that was first published in 2008.
A Wakatipu house benefits from Arrowtown architect Max Wild’s local knowledge in this project, which first appeared in Houses magazine in 2008.
Project lead designer for the recently opened New York Grill at Westfield Newmarket, Shamal Nanji, discusses some of the fabric choices for this hospitality space.
We interview Simon Devitt, one of New Zealand’s most successful and prolific architectural photographers, to hear about some of his favourite projects to shoot.
Interior solutions were used in this Christchurch campus to co-locate two, single gender schools and mitigate an age-old battle of the sexes.
Nestled against a ridgeline and taking in views to the distant peaks of the national park beyond, this new home is born of dedication and collaboration.
Take a first look at the newly-opened Saxon + Parole – the equestrian-themed American restaurant in Auckland’s Commercial Bay.
The telco’s new Christchurch headquarters by Sheppard & Rout Architects mimics and reflects its context and industry with its decorative and functional glass façade.
Linehouse – co-founded by New Zealander – proves hospitality spaces can have all the luxury of fine dining coupled with a dynamic food offering.
The firm’s Kathleen Kinney and Cathy Challinor discuss a Gisborne monument that has been reimagined to honour the first explorers to arrive in Aotearoa.
An angular concrete form is an architectural riff on the rocky crags and crevices that characterize the steep topography of this harbourside suburb.
Zespri’s new headquarters by Warren and Mahoney intertwines the language of the orchard with that of the corporate workplace.
ALIGNwork’s trans-generational beach house, first published in 2008, is a welcome sight at a very mixed development.
In this project from the Houses archives, Megan Edwards demonstrates her mastery of the bungalow extension in an older Auckland suburb.
In another project from the archives, a Mt Eden addition where Megan Edwards deftly engineers a twenty-first century lean-to.
First Light Studio has created a secondary dwelling in Wellington’s Petone that proves that considered design comes in all shapes and sizes.
Isthmus principal Nick Kapica explains the design for these international-award-winning installations in Auckland’s Hobsonville Point.
Christchurch-based architecture and nature photographer Dennis Radermacher discusses his favourite images and techniques for capturing a project.