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Kanat Studio’s interior design for Netball North Harbour has completely transformed the 70-year-old facility, creating a proud home fit for Auckland’s netball community.
Full Time Sports Bar & Eatery in Auckland is set to be a fan-favourite, with the CTRL Space design incorporating high-tech innovation within its casual, sporting atmosphere.
Beneath the fresh, Scandi vibe of this Stufkens + Chambers-designed home is a strong sense of social and environmental awareness. Amanda Harkness finds out more.
When the world’s largest law firm appointed Unispace to design its new workplace in Wellington, it was looking for a radical new environment. Amanda Harkness investigates.
Amanda Harkness takes a tour of Precinct Properties’ revitalised head office, by Warren and Mahoney, and finds a series of dramatically different elevations.
Architect Henri Sayes of Sayes Studio embraces the curve in one of his most recent projects — his own home. Amanda Harkness takes a closer look.
In Bivacco, hospitality maestro Izzard Design has worked its trademark transformative magic. Amanda Harkness checks out the performance.
When it comes to medium-density housing, Ōtautahi-based practice Sheppard & Rout has form. Amanda Harkness considers its latest project, Worcester Terraces.
Financial adviser Alex Wang opens art-filled, designer office in Victoria Park — the design led by Buster Caldwell of concept and interior design studio Wonder Group.
Amanda Harkness explores the dramatic interior narrative, combining the exotic and eclectic with the comfortable, of Wellington’s Naumi Studio Hotel by Material Creative.
Following the contours of its site in Bendemeer Estate near Queenstown, this visually understated home offers a luxurious residence within.
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.
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.
Jeremy Smith samples the high life low down at the a r + d and Bossley Architects-designed Park Hyatt in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter.
Alongside this boutique gym’s first space, opened in 2018, a second studio space designed by Mijntje Lepoutre offers both continuity and change for the brand.
Amanda Harkness explores the interior design of The Hotel Britomart – Cheshire Architects’ latest project in the downtown Auckland precinct – and discovers thoughtful craftmanship at every turn.
Two recent restaurant additions to Auckland’s Commercial Bay boast some of the best public views of the civic precinct. Federico Monsalve discovers what sets them apart.
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.
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.
Interior solutions were used in this Christchurch campus to co-locate two, single gender schools and mitigate an age-old battle of the sexes.
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.
Zespri’s new headquarters by Warren and Mahoney intertwines the language of the orchard with that of the corporate workplace.
Melanie McDaid explores the new Novotel Christchurch Airport, designed by Warren and Mahoney, which takes its cues from its geographic context.
ANZ seeks a natural feel and a touch of biophilia in its new Sylvia Park locale, whose fitout was designed by Warren and Mahoney. Melanie McDaid finds out more.
The front door to this villa in Grey Lynn might look typical, but it’s a portal to another time and place.
With brick as the predominant material, this house is like a contemporary rendition of an historic ruin, affirming the pedestal of brick in architecture.
A well-known art deco building in Wellington undergoes an internal metamorphosis in order to house this global skincare brand’s headquarters and retail space.
Art, greenery, sunshine and a touch of vintage blend effortlessly in this brutalist house for the co-founder of Mexico’s hippest hotel chain.
This local, boutique co-working designer and operator unveils its recent Christchurch offering and discusses some of the larger themes behind that style of work.
This renowned branding think-tank takes on the role of a lifetime: to redefine itself and how its workplace personifies and facilitates that shift.
A seemingly endless night sky, stargazing traditions, a nearly forgotten telescope… the designers of the Dark Sky Project were spoilt for inspirational choice.
Arches, circles, curves – these two interiors seek a softer, more rotund way of welcoming customers.
Theatre, the fine arts and a high level of empathy are at the core of this Vancouver design practice.
A long-established advertising agency has taken a fresh new approach to collaborative space.
Most childcare centres feature a rainbow of clashing colours and zany patterns, with a backdrop of practical necessities. Not in this one.
The newly renovated Holiday Inn near Auckland Airport presents a bright and welcoming front with a contemporary, Pacific-inspired aesthetic.
Mark Simpson, joint creative director at Melbourne’s DesignOffice, talks about the firm’s new Auckland fit-out for retailer Superette.