Tag: Houses
RSSHouses Revisited: Twist top
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This 2006 home from Arthouse Architecture sits above a Nelson beach and demonstrates a relaxed form of maritime modernism.
Houses Revisited: Little paua
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Godward Guthrie’s Coromandel bach from our 2006 archives is an exercise in self-containment and self-conscious nostalgia.
Sculpting form and material
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Architect Sam Caradus from Crosson Architects explores and contrasts material and form in the Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Local Award-winning Light and Clay.
A cosy getaway: Killora Bay
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
A finely crafted bunker: Mt Coot-tha House
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An intimate knowledge of both the steep site and the inhabitants shaped the design of a connected family refuge in a eucalypt forest on the outskirts of Brisbane.
Free range
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Jeremy Smith discovers a small ‘mufti day’ in the search for housing when he visits a reworked flour mill by Malcolm Walker Architects.
An abstracted terrace: Fitzroy North House 02
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This curious family home, appearing as an abstracted worker’s cottage from the street, conceals an open design shaped by two verdant garden courtyards.
Following the whenua
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Mark Southcombe visits Parsonson Architects’ Long House in Wellington’s Churton Park and finds a home designed with both landform and landscape in mind.
Houses Revisited: Living inside out
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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
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In this home that was originally published in 2007, Palladio, not Ponsonby, is the precedent for a Devonport house by Jane Priest and Vanillaspace.