Tag: Residential | Architecture Now

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.

Projects | This compact home is full of designer furniture and surrounded by a landscape of lakes and forests.

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

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

Projects | This tiny Spanish apartment oozes colour, graphic flair and personality while residing a stone’s throw away from the Sagrada Familia.

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

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

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.

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

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

Projects | Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, this home on a hill of Auckland’s North Shore is steeped in family history and luscious detail.

Projects | We look back at a bach on Auckland’s West Coast in which Matthew Gribben pursues an unorthodox design solution.

Projects | Concrete and timber join forces in this house to offer a visual and physical experience that is close to architectural magic.

Projects | In this home, first published in 2009, Athfield Architects meets the challenge of Cook Strait head on.

Projects | The reimagining of this home in Auckland’s Mount Albert champions balance, tactility and the gentle power of detail.

Projects | Revisit Gus Watt’s house for his family at Eastbourne: a hand-crafted expression of his design philosophy.

Projects | This addition to a Bruny Island bush shack cleverly exaggerates the existing roof form to create volume, drama and dialogue.

Projects | Revisit a house on the heights above Christchurch suburb Sumner, where Wilson and Hill dug in to deliver a home out of the box.

Projects | This apartment bridges three buildings from two different centuries through impeccable décor and a hefty comic book collection.

Projects | We look back at a home in which Paul Leuschke takes a modest budget and creates a farmhouse with room to grow.