Architecture Now

June 2008 (Issue 8)

The best contemporary residential architecture, with inspirational ideas from leading architects and designers.

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Projects

Houses Revisited: Le sublime

Projects | Wellington architect Hugh Tennent demonstrates his sensitive craft in the Marlborough Sounds in this home that was first published in 2008.

Houses Revisited: Sense of place

Projects | At her own Wanaka house, first published in 2008, Anne Salmond has turned simple sketched boxes into a comfortable home.

Houses Revisited: Like different, man

Projects | Andrew Sexton’s reworked bach on the Wairarapa coast is appropriately resistant to modern pretensions in this project from the 2008 archives.

Houses Revisited: Advanced pose

Projects | Xsite Architects’ zinc-clad house in a conservative Auckland suburb, first published in March 2008, stretches out to the sun and sea.

Houses Revisited: Layered approach

Projects | North of Auckland, Herbst Architects again produce a sophisticated response to climate and context in this house that we revisit from 2008.