Tag: Houses
RSSHouses Revisited: Light touch
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From the 2007 archives: In a paddock outside Levin, Chris Johns designed a comfortable and disarmingly simple country home.
A place of whakapapa
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In Toto Whare, Bull O’Sullivan Architecture has created a home where generations come together to connect and bond. Jeremy Smith is captivated by its energy and generosity of spirit.
An architectural ‘pet’: Erskineville Creature
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This calm, compact dwelling at the rear of a Victorian terrace represents an alternative to conventional home designs that will become increasingly valuable as our urban centres densify and household sizes decrease.
Suburban tranquility: Park Life
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Architecture Architecture has created a tranquil home for an artist and a curator on this slice of suburbia – the legacy of a 1940s attempt to marry housing and countryside.
Houses Revisited: Ode to Auckland
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An enduring design even at the time of publishing in 2007, Jack Manning’s Stanley Point house is testament to a gentler place and time.
Houses Revisited: Big little
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An economy of planning and a luxury of volume characterise this Gerald Parsonson bach at Raumati, first published in 2007.
Houses Revisited: Higher plane
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From September 2007: On an exposed site with a huge panorama, Strachan Group Architects (SGA) provides shelter and dissolves boundaries.
Transgenerational living: Thornbury Townhouses
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Behind what appears to be a single house in a suburban neighbourhood, two homes offer enough flexibility for both households to enjoy their different stages of life.
Prefab off-the-grid: Courtyard House
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Touching the earth lightly, this off-grid house by Chrofi located in a beachside forest, displays the potential for prefabrication to deliver high-quality design in any location.
Gallery house
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Jeremy Smith discovers the Wrightmann House in Christchurch, where considered architectural curatorship by Athfield Architects has given every wall a voice.
Houses Revisited: A beachy bach
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Gerald Parsonson’s holiday house at Paraparaumu, first published in 2007, is a triumph of substance over style.
Houses Revisited: Light heavyweight
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In Auckland’s most established suburb, Malcolm Walker demonstrates a deft touch with shape and space with this house from 2007.
Houses Revisited: Float on
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In another 2007 project from Gerald Parsonson, an assured house at Peka Peka rides the dunes rolling inland from an untamed coast.
Domestic joy: Harry House
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Wrapped in charred timber cladding and hugged tightly by a lush suburban garden, this discreet addition to an existing cottage expertly balances function and folly.
Boxing clever: 10x10 House
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Megan Edwards visits Patchwork Architecture’s award-winning project in Wellington and finds a playful, elegant and environmentally efficient architectural solution on a scrap of leftover hillside.
A tale of three houses: Gibbons Architects
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Taranaki-based architects Brady and Sarah Gibbons have been part of the growing architecture scene in this up and coming region since 2013. We explore some of their recent work.
A ‘one-in-100-year renovation’: Concrete Blonde
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Tucked behind an existing heritage home on a tight block with a south-facing yard, this generous addition offers light-filled, textured spaces with a natural, earthy palette.
Houses Revisited: Settler chic
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In pastoral Waikato, RTA Studio employ vernacular forms to create an inland holiday house that was first published in 2007.
Houses Revisited: Hard case
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Tough materials and flexible spaces characterise Archimedia’s Hamilton house by the Waikato River, from the Houses magazine 2007 archives.
Houses Revisited: Buffed up
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Strict conditions on a vulnerable coastal site lead Godward Guthrie to develop clever solutions in the design for this house from 2007.