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Revisit this 2008 project where Antanas Procuta Architects (now PAUA) has some fun with an archetype in a Waikato farm manager’s house.
Take a look at our most popular houses of the year. From Otago to Northland, these residential projects have shown Kiwi architecture at its finest.
A nuanced understanding of the context’s colourful heritage, as well as its local quirks and character, is embedded in this neighbourly family home.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An angular concrete form is an architectural riff on the rocky crags and crevices that characterize the steep topography of this harbourside suburb.
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.
Defined by its rectilinear parasol of timber batten, this house prioritizes clarity over pragmatism, geometric consistency over lavishness and poetry over function.
Jeremy Smith considers the compelling proposition of re-use in this poetic preservation of a South Island cabin by Anna-Marie Chin Architects.
Edged by an established garden and crowned by an undulating concrete roof-form, this home for collectors is a carefully cultivated expression in concrete and glass.
This award-winning Waiheke home by JDA Studio Architects offers a young family privacy, expansive views and a sophisticated see-through pavilion.
In 2008 near Wellington Heads, Novak & Middleton designed a solid house for a very discerning client: a fusion of Swiss client and Kiwi architect.
First published in 2008, this Tim Dorrington-designed beach house in the Far North is inspired by memories of holidays under canvas.
Robin O’Donnell balances prospect and protection on an Auckland clifftop site in this home from the 2008 archives.
A monolithic home confidently emerges from the landscape, capturing distant views and forging a connection to the soundscape of its surrounds.
Overlooking a sacred pā site, this Dunedin home responds to its sweeping views and the needs of a growing family with considered planning and humble forms.
Taking a restorative approach to the renovation of a sandstone cottage, Benn and Penna has composed contemporary materials to pay homage to the original historic home.
Architecturepublic has recently unveiled a Remuera home with significant sculptural forms that respond to height-to-boundary restrictions.
From the 2008 archives: Ken Crosson has designed a pair of townhouses in St Heliers that reject rampant individualism.
Look back at this home on Auckland’s West Coast, where Simon Carnachan works up a modernist recipe for a casual beach house.
First published in 2008, we review this early Nineties, sustainable home on the Kapiti Coast by iconic modernist architect Fritz Eisenhofer.
Sitting quietly above the water and surrounded by newly planted native bush, this home by Kerr Ritchie takes its peaceful place on the shores of Lake Wakatipu.
The house that marketing built: This Los Angeles home, perched above a running stream, was brought to you by… a truckload of brands.