Tag: Residential | Architecture Now

Richness in texture: Westmere House

Projects | A modern addition breathes new life into this 1929 home in Westmere, Auckland, without overpowering its original glory.

Projects | Make Architecture’s addition to a two-bedroom house in Abbotsford, Melbourne, reflects the area’s industrial aesthetic.

Projects | A balance of textures and light has transformed this New York loft into a comfortable family home.

Projects | A sensitive extension to a heritage-listed Sydney terrace house offers generous living spaces and encourages an outdoor life.

Projects | This classic apartment in The Hague proves that even a small, urban, rental property can be turned into a personable home.

Projects | A classic suburban house has been transformed by an intervention that manages to appear both understated and effortless.

Projects | A classically elegant homestead in the Hunter Valley, Australia has been transformed with bubbling and inventive playfulness.

Projects | This Melbourne home simultaneously evokes a sense of solid permanence and a contradictory feeling of lightness and warmth.

Projects | A modernist-inspired rural retreat, this pavilion by Branch Studio Architects responds meaningfully to its landscape.

Projects | A house in Auckland’s Castor Bay with an intrinsic rhythm and movement and a tad of local poetry.

Projects | This house in Western Australia transcends its modest site and budget through strategic manipulations of light and form.

Projects | In a historic village in southern Italy, this simple townhouse has been turned into a veritable gem.

Projects | Overlooking Ruby Island on Lake Wanaka, a young family’s holiday home features four gabled timber forms.

Projects | Imbued with an Italian influence, this worker’s cottage in Brisbane has been transformed into an imaginary “ruin”.

Projects | A backyard building in Melbourne revitalises the rear of a property and a suburban laneway.

Projects | A generous site has been transformed by Base Architecture into a private park and a new home that takes from modernist cues.

Projects | Houses feature consistently on ArchitectureNow‘s ‘most read’ list, but which particular ones caught your eye this year?

Projects | This Sydney house balances generosity and intimacy with detailed craftsmanship and comfortable day-to-day living.

Projects | In this Sydney home, an artful sequence of layered spaces is contained within a building form that belies its size.

Projects | This beachside home in Tasmania is precise without being fussy, facilitating a relaxed lifestyle with a sense of grandeur.