Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

Natural order

Projects | Overlooking a sacred pā site, this Dunedin home responds to its sweeping views and the needs of a growing family with considered planning and humble forms.

A material experience: Balmain Rock

Projects | Taking a restorative approach to the renovation of a sandstone cottage, Benn and Penna has composed contemporary materials to pay homage to the original historic home.

Of law and sculpture

Projects | Architecturepublic has recently unveiled a Remuera home with significant sculptural forms that respond to height-to-boundary restrictions.

Houses Revisited: Right neighbourly

Projects | From the 2008 archives: Ken Crosson has designed a pair of townhouses in St Heliers that reject rampant individualism.

Houses revisited: Kiwi pav

Projects | Look back at this home on Auckland’s West Coast, where Simon Carnachan works up a modernist recipe for a casual beach house.

Houses Revisited: Dome house

Projects | First published in 2008, we review this early Nineties, sustainable home on the Kapiti Coast by iconic modernist architect Fritz Eisenhofer.

Lakeside hideaway

Projects | Sitting quietly above the water and surrounded by newly planted native bush, this home by Kerr Ritchie takes its peaceful place on the shores of Lake Wakatipu.

Hot House: Bridge House

Projects | The house that marketing built: This Los Angeles home, perched above a running stream, was brought to you by… a truckload of brands.

A dignified return: Drill Hall House

Projects | Tobias Partners takes a curatorial hammer to a previously modified drill hall, reinstating the clarity of the original building form and create a reposeful home.

Suburban starship: Studley Park House

Projects | This home by March Studio navigates the terrain of a sloping site while saluting the mid-century architecture that informed its design.

Houses Revisited: Still on top

Projects | Look back at a house in wild Wairarapa that reprises the adventure and ambition of Gordon Moller’s early career.

Houses Revisited: Nesting instinct

Projects | From the archives: Form follows climate in this home from Strachan Group Architects near Mangawhai Heads, which looks set to take flight.

Houses revisited: Mission statement

Projects | First published in 2008, Paul Clarke has designed a view house in Auckland’s eastern suburbs that preserves a little of the past.

Courtyard dreams

Projects | The front door to this villa in Grey Lynn might look typical, but it’s a portal to another time and place.

Desirable abode

Projects | We caught up with Barry Condon of Condon Scott Architects to talk about the design of this new home in Wanaka.

Extra-ordinary

Projects | With brick as the predominant material, this house is like a contemporary rendition of an historic ruin, affirming the pedestal of brick in architecture.

The ‘C’ word: Escape to Kawau Island

Projects | Photographer Alex Wallace remembers an idyllic weekend at a Kawau Island bach, designed by Auckland-based ICR Studio.

Houses Revisited: Adventure in toytown

Projects | In this Wellington home, first published in 2009, Uche Isichei has designed an unconventional house for a once-sleepy suburb.

Houses Revisited: Housing acts

Projects | Paul Barry’s ‘Three-part house’ makes the most of a tight and tiny Wellington site in this project that was first published in 2009.

Houses Revisited: Core values

Projects | From the 2009 archives: The late Guy Sellars solved the planning puzzle in a two-faced Christchurch house for his son’s family.