Tag: Houses revisited | Architecture Now

Houses Revisited: Elocution lesson

Projects | Lance Herbst’s small apartment building in Parnell is a top-end model of clarity, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Point Chevalier house

Projects | Jonathan Smith has designed a modest, modern house that makes the most of a challenging section, first published in 2011.

Houses Revisited: Above the shop

Projects | The Architecture Office have brought a little bit of suburbia to a city edge apartment, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Rationalist house

Projects | In this large Christchurch house, Wilson and Hill Architects continue their exploration of contemporary Modernism, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Up periscope

Projects | RTA Studio navigates through a minefield of rules and regulations at Torpedo Bay, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Modern manners

Projects | A Remuera house by Godward Guthrie Architecture is respectful but not too formal, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Strait on

Projects | On Wellington’s wild southern shore Rafe Maclean has designed a brave little house for his family, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Retro slick

Projects | Working with design-literate clients, and his builder brother, Michael Melville has fused seventies suburban optimism and contemporary experimentation, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Pastoral idyll

Projects | The art in this Gerald Parsonson house in the Wellington hinterlands is visible on the inside and the out, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Dune days

Projects | At ostentatious Omaha Aimer Naismith Architects have acknowledged the simpler bach tradition with the design of this home, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Twist top

Projects | This 2006 home from Arthouse Architecture sits above a Nelson beach and demonstrates a relaxed form of maritime modernism.

Houses Revisited: Little paua

Projects | Godward Guthrie’s Coromandel bach from our 2006 archives is an exercise in self-containment and self-conscious nostalgia.

Houses Revisited: Orthopaedic surgery

Projects | From the archives: On a fine old Auckland street, Robin O’Donnell has extended the life of a time-worn Arts and Crafts house with ‘good bones’.

Houses Revisited: Full nelson

Projects | Sited on a grassy spur above Waimea Inlet this house, first published in 2006, by Jeremy Smith looks east to Tasman Bay and west to the Kahurangi mountains.

Houses Revisited: Tree house

Projects | Look back at this home from 2006: Xsite Architecture’s wooden ark is tailor made for this slightly alternative, somewhat post-hippy site in one of the farther reaches of West Auckland.

Houses Revisited: Prop forward

Projects | Revisit a bold and brassy house by Guy Tarrant, first published in 2006, which seems eager to grapple with its suburban Auckland street.

Houses Revisited: Valley girls

Projects | From our 2007 archives: With architect John Mills as guide two Wellington clients brave Doubt and Despair to build their House Beautiful.

Houses Revisited: Island adventure

Projects | From 2006: London is not an easy city to leave, but one family decided on a new start, in a new place, in a new house. Now they live on a hill above a Waiheke bay in a contemporary home designed by Geoff Richards.

Houses Revisited: Living inside out

Projects | By the wild entrance of Wellington harbour Studio Pacific Architecture experiment with climate control in this 2007 house from the archives.

Houses Revisited: Villa redux

Projects | In this home that was originally published in 2007, Palladio, not Ponsonby, is the precedent for a Devonport house by Jane Priest and Vanillaspace.