Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

Domestic ritual: The Green House

Review | Lynda Simmons reflects on the work of Claude Megson and reviews Rafik Patel’s restoration of one of his 1970s’ designs.

Projects | This effective extension in Sydney makes the most of unpretentious materials and a simple form to meet the clients’ brief.

Projects | A modern addition breathes new life into this 1929 home in Westmere, Auckland, without overpowering its original glory.

Projects | Make Architecture’s addition to a two-bedroom house in Abbotsford, Melbourne, reflects the area’s industrial aesthetic.

Projects | A sensitive extension to a heritage-listed Sydney terrace house offers generous living spaces and encourages an outdoor life.

Projects | This sustainable beach house in Victoria is modelled on the layers of limestone shelves and caves that make up its site.

Projects | A classic suburban house has been transformed by an intervention that manages to appear both understated and effortless.

Projects | Before this rather tumultuous summer ends, we look back at last year’s 5 most popular beach houses from across New Zealand.

Projects | Contemporary flair with a Caribbean soul is key to the success of this idyllic jungle house on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.

Projects | A classically elegant homestead in the Hunter Valley, Australia has been transformed with bubbling and inventive playfulness.

Projects | This Melbourne home simultaneously evokes a sense of solid permanence and a contradictory feeling of lightness and warmth.

Projects | A house in Auckland’s Castor Bay with an intrinsic rhythm and movement and a tad of local poetry.

Projects | This house in Western Australia transcends its modest site and budget through strategic manipulations of light and form.

Projects | In a historic village in southern Italy, this simple townhouse has been turned into a veritable gem.

Projects | This robust addition to a weatherboard cottage extends across its site, creating open, calm spaces in dense inner-Sydney.

Projects | Overlooking Ruby Island on Lake Wanaka, a young family’s holiday home features four gabled timber forms.

Projects | Imbued with an Italian influence, this worker’s cottage in Brisbane has been transformed into an imaginary “ruin”.

Projects | A generous site has been transformed by Base Architecture into a private park and a new home that takes from modernist cues.

People | Tim Dorrington and Sam Atcheson’s highly collaborative methodology has produced numerous award-winning buildings.

Projects | Houses feature consistently on ArchitectureNow‘s ‘most read’ list, but which particular ones caught your eye this year?