Tag: Residential | Architecture Now

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.

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.

Camperdown apartment: Ode to brutalism

Projects | The brief for this Sydney apartment called for a concrete box… the result, surprisingly, is a warm and inviting gem.

Hot House: Madrid minimalism

Projects | This small space is home to an emergency doctor, Albóndiga (Meatball, his pet bulldog) and a large collection of pot plants.

Well grounded: Oliver’s Ridge

Projects | With a clear mandate to be elegant, yet passive, Queenstown’s Team Green Architects has delivered a home that is powerful in many respects.

Urban colours: Park Avenue Prewar

Projects | This not-so-small Manhattan apartment is a delightful example of the magic that colour can bring to a previously dark enclosure.

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.

Danish fairy tale: Copper Wood House

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

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.

Small spaces: Barcelona nouveau

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

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.

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.

Jewel on the hill: The Knoll

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

Houses Revisited: Complex solution

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

Magic touch: Gold Coast residence

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

Houses Revisited: Tough love

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