Tag: Residential | Architecture Now

Holding court: Cloister House

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.

Projects | Sitting within the bones of a 1960s building, this new studio captures the spirit of the original while opening a new chapter.

Projects | Richard Middleton takes design inspiration from a Wairarapa site’s former incarnation as an orchard.

Projects | A steep, narrow site on Waiheke Island provided the perfect opportunity for Box to deliver its architecture.

Projects | A couple and their extended family share a home made up of two houses that are separate yet delightfully stitched together.

Projects | A Central Otago house designed by Tim Dagg blurs the lines of the natural and built environment.

Review | Four New Zealand designers and homeowners share insights from their favourite bathroom projects.