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This thoughtful collaboration between an Italian architect and his Cantabrian clients offers both a sense of enclosure and one of release, with a subtle nod to the architect’s Roman roots.
Lance Herbst’s small apartment building in Parnell is a top-end model of clarity, first published in 2006.
Jonathan Smith has designed a modest, modern house that makes the most of a challenging section, first published in 2011.
The Architecture Office have brought a little bit of suburbia to a city edge apartment, first published in 2006.
Jasper van der Lingen visits Patterson Associates Architects’ Ravenscar House Museum in Christchurch and finds a reawakening of the city’s past architectural pleasures.
Jeremy Smith visits Strachan Group Architects’ My Whare, an initiative to help combat youth homelessness in conjunction with Visionwest, and finds these tiny dwellings are filled with aroha.
In the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, Jasmax, in collaboration with Haumi, has brought the concept of kaitiakitanga to the world.
Guy Marriage investigates the flamboyant façade and innovative climbing formwork of The Pacifica, Auckland’s towering 56-floor apartment building by Plus Architecture.
Following the contours of its site in Bendemeer Estate near Queenstown, this visually understated home offers a luxurious residence within.
From December 2019 to March 2021, the value of New Zealand’s housing stock increased by $324 billion or about $65K per person in our team of five million.
In the final part of this three-part series, we look at a project that brings together many aspects of environmental design and re-use that come together to create this unique home for its owner.
In this large Christchurch house, Wilson and Hill Architects continue their exploration of contemporary Modernism, first published in 2006.
RTA Studio navigates through a minefield of rules and regulations at Torpedo Bay, first published in 2006.
A Remuera house by Godward Guthrie Architecture is respectful but not too formal, first published in 2006.
New Zealand-born photographer Mary Gaudin, now Montpellier-based, shares with us her top five projects and explains how choosing books in her local library led her to a career in photography.
Queenstown’s Central Private Hotel was named as this year’s Grand Prix award-winner at the Dulux Colour Awards. We talk to Undercurrent director Liv Macfarlane about the thinking behind this stand-out design and how the selection of Warwick Fabrics was integral to the final result.
Located in a recently developed section of Arthur’s Point, a hillside neighbourhood close to Coronet Peak and overlooking the Shotover River, Steel House was designed as a first home for a young family.
Working with design-literate clients, and his builder brother, Michael Melville has fused seventies suburban optimism and contemporary experimentation, first published in 2006.
On Wellington’s wild southern shore Rafe Maclean has designed a brave little house for his family, first published in 2006.
The art in this Gerald Parsonson house in the Wellington hinterlands is visible on the inside and the out, first published in 2006.
Auckland-based architectural photographer Sam Hartnett sees beauty in places where we often don’t expect it.
An insertion into an industrial section of the city, this new wellness retreat model provides a range of calming spaces for the rejuvenation of both mind and body.
The traditional workplace rule book was thrown out for this immersive, gamified experience that Unispace created for this Auckland game studio, a finalist in the 2021 Interior Awards.
This 2006 home from Arthouse Architecture sits above a Nelson beach and demonstrates a relaxed form of maritime modernism.
Godward Guthrie’s Coromandel bach from our 2006 archives is an exercise in self-containment and self-conscious nostalgia.
At ostentatious Omaha Aimer Naismith Architects have acknowledged the simpler bach tradition with the design of this home, first published in 2006.
David St George has a special talent of being able to capture not only a space but also the people in it. Here, he recounts his top five favourite projects: exhibitions, studio processes, large-scale infrastructure and more.
Dorita Hannah explores Diocesan School for Girls’ basilica-like Performing Arts Centre by McIldowie Partners in association with Upton Architects and what it highlights about the value of theatre in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau.
With its golden curves and glowing forms, this year’s Interior Award-winning Retail project, the Comvita Wellness Lab, is designed to bring us closer to nature and help us fall in love with bees again.
Architect Sam Caradus from Crosson Architects explores and contrasts material and form in the Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Local Award-winning Light and Clay.
Jeremy Smith samples the high life low down at the a r + d and Bossley Architects-designed Park Hyatt in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter.
On an island escape, in an area populated by white gums and stands of grass trees, this holiday home for a young family serves as an elegant living platform that offers many ways to enjoy its bush setting.
Look back at this home from 2006: Xsite Architecture’s wooden ark is tailor made for this slightly alternative, somewhat post-hippy site in one of the farther reaches of West Auckland.
From the archives: On a fine old Auckland street, Robin O’Donnell has extended the life of a time-worn Arts and Crafts house with ‘good bones’.
Sited on a grassy spur above Waimea Inlet this house, first published in 2006, by Jeremy Smith looks east to Tasman Bay and west to the Kahurangi mountains.
This NZIA Local Award winner takes inspiration from the Pacific Rim, creating a flexible space that offers the comforts of home but can function as a luxury lodge, all poised under an undulating roofline.
An earthy colour palette brings the surrounding bushland inside this laidback yet sophisticated refuge that playfully acknowledges its mid-century modernist roots.
Athfield Architects associate Kim Salt discusses the thinking behind the fit-out of the NZIA-award-winning space for lead tenant Greater Wellington Regional Council.
This year’s Interior Awards finalist ‘House on a Rock’ takes its interior cues from the surrounding landscape, resulting in a warm, handcrafted aesthetic designed with family in mind.
Contemplative and brave, this new house on a prominent corner site eschews the suburban status quo to connect its occupants with their community and climate.