Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

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.

Sculpting form and material

Projects | Architect Sam Caradus from Crosson Architects explores and contrasts material and form in the Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Local Award-winning Light and Clay.

Projects | On an island escape, in an area populated by white gums and stands of grass trees, this holiday home for a young family serves as an elegant living platform that offers many ways to enjoy its bush setting.

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.

Wondrous curves: Wahroonga House

Projects | An earthy colour palette brings the surrounding bushland inside this laidback yet sophisticated refuge that playfully acknowledges its mid-century modernist roots.

Between a rock and a cliff face

Projects | This year’s Interior Awards finalist ‘House on a Rock’ takes its interior cues from the surrounding landscape, resulting in a warm, handcrafted aesthetic designed with family in mind.

Sun seeker: Macdonald Road House

Projects | Contemplative and brave, this new house on a prominent corner site eschews the suburban status quo to connect its occupants with their community and climate.

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.

Dark and stormy: Three Stories North

Projects | Embracing the character of its 1890s shell, this family home features an unusual combination of materials that is at once dark, moody and surprisingly warm.