Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

Coming together: His and Hers House

Projects | Sculpted around the simple daily enactment of the owners’ newly shared life, this addition represents a binding together of stories, memories and moments.

Trademark lyricism: Stradbroke House

Projects | Well versed in designing for the tropical Queensland climate, the Gabriel and Elizabeth Poole and Tim Bennetton have collaborated to deliver an exuberant South Stradbroke Island holiday home for the owner and her four grandsons.

Under one roof: Daylesford Longhouse

Projects | This year’s Australian House of the Year is also a farm building, greenhouse and cooking school, all within a 110-metre-long prefabricated shed.

A lesson in collaboration: Sly Brothers Semi

Projects | Taking a neighbourly approach to design and construction, this addition to a historic attached cottage preserves a connection to a coast-dwelling past.

Mountain living: Roys Peak House

Projects | A contemporary Mason & Wales Architects holiday house in Wanaka pays homage to the ‘crib’, the classic South Island back-country tramping hut.

Afterglow: Casa Aragonés

Projects | When day becomes night, the true colours of this Mexican home come out to play.

Artful apertures: Cloud House

Projects | A restful sanctuary, this house uses carefully considered apertures and subtle texture to create a sense of unencumbered space and levity.

To keep you home: Architect’s family residence

Projects | Ancestry, an indie-rock song and an innate desire to keep one’s family safe make this Auckland home unique and truly welcoming.

Parnell renovation: Small and tall

Projects | This humble working man’s cottage has been transformed into a beautiful light-filled home, with an impossibly high ceiling.

Mt Eden addition: Garden room

Projects | This cleverly conceived villa addition offers a strong connection to its outdoor living space, stepping across the site and framing the back garden.

Houses Revisited: In at the deep end

Projects | First published in 2009, in this home on the outskirts of Auckland Tim Dorrington designed a pool house, and just kept going.

Houses Revisited: Arney Road House

Projects | Revisit this home, where Robin O’Donnell Architects demonstrates a command of space and light in Auckland’s Remuera.

Double feature: Naremburn Twin Peaks

Projects | Simple yet impactful alterations and additions to an interwar Sydney bungalow elevate the interiors to bright contemporary living spaces.

Houses Revisited: Down to earth

Projects | Revisit a home in an Auckland inner-city suburb where architect Megan Rule works with the oldest material of all.

Houses Revisited: Keep in shape

Projects | Take a look back at an Andrew Patterson-designed contemporary castle with a twist on the cliffs above Auckland’s west coast.

Holding court: Cloister House

Projects | Informed by Roman courtyard houses, this Perth home artfully sculpts a domestic sanctuary out of concrete, timber and light.

Houses Revisited: No barrier to class

Projects | At the far reaches of the Hauraki Gulf, revisit a home by Herbst Architects – one in their remarkable series of modern baches.

Hot House: Haus Gables

Projects | It is high and low brow, quotes modernism and pop culture, and is functional yet intensely sculptural. Best of all… it is tonnes of fun.

Houses Revisited: Happy camping

Projects | Return to a Copeland Associates home that draws on the tropes of the Kiwi beach settlement for a Coromandel holiday house.

Bardon House: Lakeside lodge

Projects | A glazed pavilion acts as a lantern to greet visitors to this Wanaka home by Sumich Chaplin Architects.