Tag: Residential | Architecture Now

Happy Days domain

Projects | Chris Barton explores DKO Architecture’s mix of terraced and apartment living at a former quarry site in Auckland’s Mount Wellington.

Houses Revisited: Adventure in toytown

Projects | In this Wellington home, first published in 2009, Uche Isichei has designed an unconventional house for a once-sleepy suburb.

Houses Revisited: Housing acts

Projects | Paul Barry’s ‘Three-part house’ makes the most of a tight and tiny Wellington site in this project that was first published in 2009.

Houses Revisited: Core values

Projects | From the 2009 archives: The late Guy Sellars solved the planning puzzle in a two-faced Christchurch house for his son’s family.

With the grain: Tairua Insitu House

Projects | The Coromandel’s gritty persona marries smooth-cut family living in this neutral-hued home, designed by Neu Architecture.

Layering spaces, light and modernity

Projects | By taking a fresh approach in this Remuera bungalow, Respond Architects has created a home full of light, effortless flow and space for its owners.

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.

Sun catcher: Empire House

Projects | Two subtle yet sophisticated pavilions honour the interwar character of this home while connecting it with the outdoors.

Quality over ostentation: Balmoral House

Projects | A series of stacked interconnected volumes that carefully negotiate a tricky wedge-shaped site provided the solution for a client.

Volume and drama: White House

Projects | This crisp addition to an Australian Federation home exuberantly manoeuvres light, space and monochrome materials to masterfully meet the brief.

Fit for pawns and queens: Latimer Terraces

Projects | Abigail Hurst explores this Warren and Mahoney project, the first of many chessboard moves to establish diverse central-city living in Christchurch.

Poured pleats

Projects | Jack McKinney Architects has transformed a Ponsonby streetscape with a dramatic gesture that is equal parts theatre and sculpture.

Lessons in scale, proportion and materiality: Albert Villa

Projects | This addition to a historic weatherboard cottage captures vistas from new living spaces arranged around a landscaped courtyard.

Safe harbour: Vikki’s Place

Projects | In responding to the client’s need for a home that caters to a unique family structure, the architects have achieved a fluid and unfussy home.

Landing place: West Meadows house

Projects | With lakeside views and an alpine backdrop, this award-winning South Island house is perfectly positioned to be a home for all seasons.

Houses Revisited: Polite subversive

Projects | Revisit a project where Wendy Shacklock discreetly shuns convention with a modern chalet design near Queenstown.

Houses Revisited: Salute to the sun

Projects | A Michael Wyatt pavilion executes a graceful pose on its well-favoured Queenstown site in this home from the archives.

Houses Revisited: Mutual support

Projects | Take a look back at this home, first published in 2009: a Malcolm Taylor project by the Waikato River that shows architect and builder can get along fine.

Elastic geometry: Glebe House

Projects | Crafted with deference to the sculptural potential of architecture, this compact family home with “elastic” geometry is a lesson in tectonic editing.

Sun sculpture

Projects | This Greek island holiday home combines the best of traditional architecture with modern, worldly comforts, textiles and interiors.