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Tobias Partners takes a curatorial hammer to a previously modified drill hall, reinstating the clarity of the original building form and create a reposeful home.
This home by March Studio navigates the terrain of a sloping site while saluting the mid-century architecture that informed its design.
From the archives: Form follows climate in this home from Strachan Group Architects near Mangawhai Heads, which looks set to take flight.
Look back at a house in wild Wairarapa that reprises the adventure and ambition of Gordon Moller’s early career.
First published in 2008, Paul Clarke has designed a view house in Auckland’s eastern suburbs that preserves a little of the past.
The front door to this villa in Grey Lynn might look typical, but it’s a portal to another time and place.
We caught up with Barry Condon of Condon Scott Architects to talk about the design of this new home in Wanaka.
With brick as the predominant material, this house is like a contemporary rendition of an historic ruin, affirming the pedestal of brick in architecture.
Photographer Alex Wallace remembers an idyllic weekend at a Kawau Island bach, designed by Auckland-based ICR Studio.
In this Wellington home, first published in 2009, Uche Isichei has designed an unconventional house for a once-sleepy suburb.
Paul Barry’s ‘Three-part house’ makes the most of a tight and tiny Wellington site in this project that was first published in 2009.
From the 2009 archives: The late Guy Sellars solved the planning puzzle in a two-faced Christchurch house for his son’s family.
The Coromandel’s gritty persona marries smooth-cut family living in this neutral-hued home, designed by Neu Architecture.
By taking a fresh approach in this Remuera bungalow, Respond Architects has created a home full of light, effortless flow and space for its owners.
Art, greenery, sunshine and a touch of vintage blend effortlessly in this brutalist house for the co-founder of Mexico’s hippest hotel chain.
Two subtle yet sophisticated pavilions honour the interwar character of this home while connecting it with the outdoors.
A series of stacked interconnected volumes that carefully negotiate a tricky wedge-shaped site provided the solution for a client.
Go beyond the everyday face of this Remuera home, originally built in the 1940s, to discover an unexpected touch of star power.
A Hawke’s Bay home from Herriot Melhuish O’Neill expresses Waimarama’s changed circumstances and its continuity of spirit.
From the Houses archives: a penthouse apartment by Cook Sargission & Pirie provides clear evidence of the rise of Freemans Bay.
We revisit a project from the March 2009 issue of Houses where Michael Fisher takes an Auckland art deco house through the rehab process.
This crisp addition to an Australian Federation home exuberantly manoeuvres light, space and monochrome materials to masterfully meet the brief.
Jack McKinney Architects has transformed a Ponsonby streetscape with a dramatic gesture that is equal parts theatre and sculpture.
This addition to a historic weatherboard cottage captures vistas from new living spaces arranged around a landscaped courtyard.
In responding to the client’s need for a home that caters to a unique family structure, the architects have achieved a fluid and unfussy home.
With lakeside views and an alpine backdrop, this award-winning South Island house is perfectly positioned to be a home for all seasons.
Crafted with deference to the sculptural potential of architecture, this compact family home with “elastic” geometry is a lesson in tectonic editing.
This addition to a grand early-20th-century home reads as a generous garden room that captures the scale and movement of the nearby cypress tree.
New shifts in volume and dramatic apertures to the sky in this Victorian terrace house create the illusion of impossibly spacious proportions.
Embracing the elements inherent in traditional courtyard houses, this home is poised, powerful and surprisingly flexible.
Wanting a larger outdoor space while also seeking an increase of the internal floor area seems mutually exclusive… or is it?
A fresh take on an unconventional building material has resulted in an energy-efficient, low-maintenance house that is turning a lot of heads.
Perpetuating the verandah culture that exists in Port Fairy, this pair of houses makes a friendly addition to the neighbourhood.
Two monolithic pavilions shrouded in concrete result from a skilful balance of architectural expression, material composition and comfort.
This home is at ease within the rugged nature of Queenstown’s landscape.
We visit a Herne Bay home with a honeyed glow and a sweet-sounding past, transformed by Verso Architecture + Interiors.
Sculpted around the simple daily enactment of the owners’ newly shared life, this addition represents a binding together of stories, memories and moments.
Well versed in designing for the tropical Queensland climate, the Gabriel and Elizabeth Poole and Tim Bennetton have collaborated to deliver an exuberant South Stradbroke Island holiday home for the owner and her four grandsons.
This year’s Australian House of the Year is also a farm building, greenhouse and cooking school, all within a 110-metre-long prefabricated shed.
Taking a neighbourly approach to design and construction, this addition to a historic attached cottage preserves a connection to a coast-dwelling past.