Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

The modern bach: Pourerere Beach House

Projects | With modest materials and a simple, social layout, this Hawke’s Bay beach house fits with its original bach neighbours.

Projects | In this Sydney home, an artful sequence of layered spaces is contained within a building form that belies its size.

Projects | This beachside home in Tasmania is precise without being fussy, facilitating a relaxed lifestyle with a sense of grandeur.

Projects | The cultural heritage of the clients subtly influenced this reworking of a 19th century row house in Melbourne.

Projects | 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.

Review | Justine Harvey talks to a range of New Zealand architects about how they design for smaller inner city homes.

Projects | This renovation of a dark terrace house has resulted in a contemporary, light-filled home with striking timber elements.

Projects | We look inside the Lautner-designed home of Mark Haddawy, a Los Angeles-based collector, design and architecture fanatic.

Projects | A young family commissioned their best friend to create a 1970s’ Brazilian jungle pad in the Auckland suburb of Sandringham.

Projects | This addition to a four-room cottage in Brisbane encourages its owners to share in the “magic” of treehouses and cubbies.

Projects | A unique design element brings this home into the 21st century while preserving and celebrating the original Victorian home.

Projects | This remodelled home in Melbourne has unexpectedly ended up smaller than it started, but with comfortable, useable areas.

Projects | This idyllic site on the water’s edge in Mahurangi East called for a home that tapped into the calm serenity of the area.

Projects | The traditional rooms in this 1890s Auckland villa have been shuffled and ingeniously spread across various levels.

Projects | This private garden sanctuary is both an escape from city life and a retreat for a client who suffers from a sleep disorder.

Projects | This former worker’s cottage has been slowly transformed into an ideal and permanent home for two Wellington architects.

Projects | Xsite Architects’ zinc-clad house from 2008 stretches out to the sun and sea in a conservative Auckland suburb.

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

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

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