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Beachy graphics: Burleigh Street House

Beachy graphics: Burleigh Street House

Posted: 20 Sep 2017

Embodying its local beachside context on the Gold Coast, this alteration and addition reconsiders the suburban status quo.

Making waves: Moving House

Making waves: Moving House

Posted: 20 Sep 2017

An apparently faceless building reveals itself as a layered and sculptural home that playfully controls light and shadow.

Home with Hoppen

Home with Hoppen

Posted: 18 Sep 2017

As British interior design’s star Kelly Hoppen celebrates 40 years in the industry, we step into the place she calls home.

Quiet achiever: Auchenflower House

Quiet achiever: Auchenflower House

Posted: 13 Sep 2017

This alteration and addition to an inter-war Queenslander by Vokes and Peters won the 2017 Australian House of the Year award.

Essential elegance: Jac House

Essential elegance: Jac House

Posted: 11 Sep 2017

This reductive addition to a four-room cottage endeavours to “find the essential” and in doing so, embraces human comfort.

Tough but delicate: Inverdon House

Tough but delicate: Inverdon House

Posted: 6 Sep 2017

Designed to withstand cyclones, this thoughtful house in regional Australia boasts a high level of detail and craftsmanship.

A blanket of sweet frangipani: Lesieli Tonga Auditorium

A blanket of sweet frangipani

Posted: 5 Sep 2017

Michael O’ Sullivan has designed a lofty auditorium for the Māngere branch of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga in Auckland.

Highly polished: Parnell Apartment

Highly polished: Parnell Apartment

Posted: 4 Sep 2017

A city-fringe penthouse apartment has been transformed into a sanctuary from the city and a place to entertain guests.

Crafting perfection: Bayside Residence

Crafting perfection: Bayside Residence

Posted: 28 Aug 2017

This highly crafted addition to an Edwardian home retains the existing building’s dignified formality.

The aspiring lawyer

The aspiring lawyer

Posted: 24 Aug 2017

The contemporary reinvention of Russell McVeagh, one of New Zealand’s oldest legal firms, has broken age-old legal hierarchies.

Privacy and openness: Coogee House

Privacy and openness: Coogee House

Posted: 23 Aug 2017

This new home by Chenchow Little is a private sanctuary that maximises the impressive panoramic views to the Pacific Ocean.

A subliminal link: Tree House

A subliminal link: Tree House

Posted: 21 Aug 2017

This modern cedar-clad cabin reinterprets tradition as it mimics its surroundings, blending with the trees and making a bold statement.

Rural accents

Rural accents

Posted: 17 Aug 2017

The Smoko Room and Sawmill Brewery sit on a rural setting and take pride in their farming and agricultural surrounds.

A sophisticated 'esky': Tent House

A sophisticated ‘esky’: Tent House

Posted: 16 Aug 2017

Extending ideas about climate-responsive architecture, this new home by Sparks Architects is poetic and emotionally charged.

Crafty rooster: Kelburn Townhouse

Crafty rooster: Kelburn Townhouse

Posted: 16 Aug 2017

In 2008, on a steep Wellington site, in an old part of town, Parsonson Architects have designed a clever townhouse.

Salute to the sun: Nagano House

Salute to the sun: Nagano House

Posted: 7 Aug 2017

The purity of Japanese architecture is energised by the daily performance of sunlight.

All in the family

All in the family

Posted: 4 Aug 2017

Camille Khouri discovers a multi-disciplinary studio that designed its own home and handcrafted a large portion of its interior.

Coastal barn: Glass House Residence

Coastal barn: Glass House Residence

Posted: 2 Aug 2017

This cleverly stitched-together, barn-like family home represents the socially conscious ideologies of its designers.

Ocean gaze

Ocean gaze

Posted: 31 Jul 2017

Designed for a jet-set family, this Monaco apartment strikes a seemingly effortless balance between comfort and style.

Garden revolution: House Au Yeung

Garden revolution: House Au Yeung

Posted: 24 Jul 2017

This thoughtful addition relaxes the home’s original formality, brings focus to the garden and offers elements of surprise.

Bush modernism: Ivanhoe House

Bush modernism: Ivanhoe House

Posted: 19 Jul 2017

This “open and transparent” addition is tucked neatly behind a weatherboard house in Melbourne’s leafy inner north.

Alt country: Bendigo House

Alt country: Bendigo House

Posted: 17 Jul 2017

Set among native bushland on the outskirts of Melbourne, this multi-generational home exudes a very urban sophistication.

Black Building – Mackelvie Street Precinct

Shared space: Black Building

Posted: 4 Jul 2017

RTA Studio’s dramatic new office/retail/carparking building creates a unique monochromatic precinct just off Ponsonby Road.

A sliver above the ranges

A sliver above the ranges

Posted: 3 Jul 2017

A slick holiday home in Nelson is luring its Singapore-based owners into making it their permanent abode.

Artisanal values: Fish Creek House

Artisanal values: Fish Creek House

Edition Office

Robust, tactile and honest, the design of this new house in Victoria responds instinctively to its setting.

Residential buildings
Doors wide open: Bali Villa

Doors wide open: Bali Villa

Posted: 26 Jun 2017

A designer villa in Bali, inspired by Japanese minimalism, captures the essence of simplicity, luxury and relaxation.

Modernist evolution: McLeod House

Modernist evolution: McLeod House

Ian Moore Architects

Perched high on a rocky outcrop, this expressive home in Sydney reveals a strong connection with mid-century modernism.

Residential buildings
Wellington International Airport Terminal: South Extension

Wellington Intl Airport: South Extension

Posted: 20 Jun 2017

Wellington Airport’s latest addition by WaM features a ‘net’ of angled cross-frames that stretch between existing buildings.

Hot House: Hidden Pavilion

Hot House: Hidden Pavilion

Posted: 19 Jun 2017

This abstract meditation space in the middle of a forest is deeply intertwined with the woodland that surrounds it.

Suburban sculpture: Bardon House

Suburban sculpture: Bardon House

bureau^proberts, PHAB Architects

Drawing in surrounding bushland, this new home in Brisbane intimately engages with its context and climate.

Residential buildings
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