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Overlooking Ruby Island on Lake Wanaka, a young family’s holiday home features four gabled timber forms.
Imbued with an Italian influence, this worker’s cottage in Brisbane has been transformed into an imaginary “ruin”.
A generous site has been transformed by Base Architecture into a private park and a new home that takes from modernist cues.
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This Sydney house balances generosity and intimacy with detailed craftsmanship and comfortable day-to-day living.
Built in 1985, this home by Biltmoderne in Melbourne presents a poetic integration of architecture, water and landscape.
With modest materials and a simple, social layout, this Hawke’s Bay beach house fits with its original bach neighbours.
In this Sydney home, an artful sequence of layered spaces is contained within a building form that belies its size.
This beachside home in Tasmania is precise without being fussy, facilitating a relaxed lifestyle with a sense of grandeur.
The cultural heritage of the clients subtly influenced this reworking of a 19th century row house in Melbourne.
With hills behind and the sea a block away, this home was a gentle introduction to the city for a couple used to open fields.
This renovation of a dark terrace house has resulted in a contemporary, light-filled home with striking timber elements.
We look inside the Lautner-designed home of Mark Haddawy, a Los Angeles-based collector, design and architecture fanatic.
A young family commissioned their best friend to create a 1970s’ Brazilian jungle pad in the Auckland suburb of Sandringham.
This addition to a four-room cottage in Brisbane encourages its owners to share in the “magic” of treehouses and cubbies.
A unique design element brings this home into the 21st century while preserving and celebrating the original Victorian home.
This remodelled home in Melbourne has unexpectedly ended up smaller than it started, but with comfortable, useable areas.
This idyllic site on the water’s edge in Mahurangi East called for a home that tapped into the calm serenity of the area.
The traditional rooms in this 1890s Auckland villa have been shuffled and ingeniously spread across various levels.
This private garden sanctuary is both an escape from city life and a retreat for a client who suffers from a sleep disorder.
This former worker’s cottage has been slowly transformed into an ideal and permanent home for two Wellington architects.
Xsite Architects’ zinc-clad house from 2008 stretches out to the sun and sea in a conservative Auckland suburb.
An apparently faceless building reveals itself as a layered and sculptural home that playfully controls light and shadow.
This alteration and addition to an inter-war Queenslander by Vokes and Peters won the 2017 Australian House of the Year award.
This reductive addition to a four-room cottage endeavours to “find the essential” and in doing so, embraces human comfort.
Designed to withstand cyclones, this thoughtful house in regional Australia boasts a high level of detail and craftsmanship.
In Pelorus Sounds, one of New Zealand’s most beautiful locations, sits a stunning home that meanders down the hillside.
This highly crafted addition to an Edwardian home retains the existing building’s dignified formality.
This new home by Chenchow Little is a private sanctuary that maximises the impressive panoramic views to the Pacific Ocean.
This modern cedar-clad cabin reinterprets tradition as it mimics its surroundings, blending with the trees and making a bold statement.
Extending ideas about climate-responsive architecture, this new home by Sparks Architects is poetic and emotionally charged.
In 2008, on a steep Wellington site, in an old part of town, Parsonson Architects have designed a clever townhouse.
The purity of Japanese architecture is energised by the daily performance of sunlight.
This cleverly stitched-together, barn-like family home represents the socially conscious ideologies of its designers.
This thoughtful addition relaxes the home’s original formality, brings focus to the garden and offers elements of surprise.
This “open and transparent” addition is tucked neatly behind a weatherboard house in Melbourne’s leafy inner north.
Set among native bushland on the outskirts of Melbourne, this multi-generational home exudes a very urban sophistication.
This horseshoe-shaped house maximises the ocean views on a steep suburban plot in Nelson.
A slick holiday home in Nelson is luring its Singapore-based owners into making it their permanent abode.
Robust, tactile and honest, the design of this new house in Victoria responds instinctively to its setting.