Tag: Residential | Architecture Now

Trademark lyricism: Stradbroke House

Projects | Well versed in designing for the tropical Queensland climate, the Gabriel and Elizabeth Poole and Tim Bennetton have collaborated to deliver an exuberant South Stradbroke Island holiday home for the owner and her four grandsons.

Perfect chemistry: Warehouse wonder

Projects | This former factory has been transformed into a spacious family home, a sports car repository and an equine genetics laboratory.

Under one roof: Daylesford Longhouse

Projects | This year’s Australian House of the Year is also a farm building, greenhouse and cooking school, all within a 110-metre-long prefabricated shed.

Surf and canopy: Costa Rica Tree House

Projects | Dreams of living in a tree house culminated in this Costa Rican vacation spot, dripping in verdure.

Mountain living: Roys Peak House

Projects | A contemporary Mason & Wales Architects holiday house in Wanaka pays homage to the ‘crib’, the classic South Island back-country tramping hut.

Afterglow: Casa Aragonés

Projects | When day becomes night, the true colours of this Mexican home come out to play.

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.