Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

Tough but delicate: Inverdon House

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

Projects | In Pelorus Sounds, one of New Zealand’s most beautiful locations, sits a stunning home that meanders down the hillside.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Projects | This horseshoe-shaped house maximises the ocean views on a steep suburban plot in Nelson.

Review | Colin Martin visited an exciting new touring exhibition that examines 70 years of house design in Japan since World War 2.

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

Review | Architects Andrew Barrie, Jeremy Smith and Woo Min Lee report their impressions of visiting the Moriyama House in Tokyo.

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

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

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

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