Tag: Interiors | Architecture Now

Oasis: ANZ Raranga

Projects | ANZ seeks a natural feel and a touch of biophilia in its new Sylvia Park locale, whose fitout was designed by Warren and Mahoney. Melanie McDaid finds out more.

Peace in a pod

Practice | Julia Gessler explores how sleeping pods are becoming a growing trend both on and off the ground.

Hotels in flux: Part three

Practice | Ignite’s Audrey de Filippis discusses distinctive storytelling through design and the evolution of the lifestyle brand in the third part of our series.

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.

Hotels in flux: Part two

Practice | Director of interior design powerhouse Space Studio, Vee Kessner, reports on the synergy of design and procurement in a changing industry.

The Room: Hotel lighting

News | A hotel in in China’s lake district in Hangzhou seeks to recreate a moonlit, meditative interior.

Hotels in flux: Part one

Practice | The local hotel industry is in a state of significant change. This six-part series explores what this might mean for the world of interiors and what might its future look like.

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.

Butterfly effect: Antipodes HQ

Projects | A well-known art deco building in Wellington undergoes an internal metamorphosis in order to house this global skincare brand’s headquarters and retail space.

Draft of shadows

Projects | Art, greenery, sunshine and a touch of vintage blend effortlessly in this brutalist house for the co-founder of Mexico’s hippest hotel chain.

Material Focus: Young + Richards

People | Harriet Pilkington – director of architecture firm Young + Richards – chats about texture and fabric selections for the recent Richards Partners office.

Village square: Qb Studios

Projects | This local, boutique co-working designer and operator unveils its recent Christchurch offering and discusses some of the larger themes behind that style of work.

Material Focus: Material Creative

People | Olivia Patience of Material Creative discusses some of the selections made for the studio’s colourful and tactile Naumi hotel Auckland Airport.

Higher ground: Richards Partners

Projects | This renowned branding think-tank takes on the role of a lifetime: to redefine itself and how its workplace personifies and facilitates that shift.

Intergalactic: Inside the Dark Sky Project

Projects | A seemingly endless night sky, stargazing traditions, a nearly forgotten telescope… the designers of the Dark Sky Project were spoilt for inspirational choice.

Catching the wave

Projects | Arches, circles, curves – these two interiors seek a softer, more rotund way of welcoming customers.

Material Focus: Walker Mitchell

People | Kirsty Mitchell, interior designer behind the Fabric Bistro in Hobsonville Point, talks about what inspired the materiality of the space.

Stage directions: Ste. Marie

Projects | Theatre, the fine arts and a high level of empathy are at the core of this Vancouver design practice.

Creative chemistry: DDB Group

Projects | A long-established advertising agency has taken a fresh new approach to collaborative space.

Fresh palette: The Rabbit Patch

Projects | Most childcare centres feature a rainbow of clashing colours and zany patterns, with a backdrop of practical necessities. Not in this one.