Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

A cosy getaway: Killora Bay

Projects | On an island escape, in an area populated by white gums and stands of grass trees, this holiday home for a young family serves as an elegant living platform that offers many ways to enjoy its bush setting.

Houses Revisited: Orthopaedic surgery

Projects | From the archives: On a fine old Auckland street, Robin O’Donnell has extended the life of a time-worn Arts and Crafts house with ‘good bones’.

Houses Revisited: Full nelson

Projects | Sited on a grassy spur above Waimea Inlet this house, first published in 2006, by Jeremy Smith looks east to Tasman Bay and west to the Kahurangi mountains.

Houses Revisited: Tree house

Projects | Look back at this home from 2006: Xsite Architecture’s wooden ark is tailor made for this slightly alternative, somewhat post-hippy site in one of the farther reaches of West Auckland.

Wondrous curves: Wahroonga House

Projects | An earthy colour palette brings the surrounding bushland inside this laidback yet sophisticated refuge that playfully acknowledges its mid-century modernist roots.

Between a rock and a cliff face

Projects | This year’s Interior Awards finalist ‘House on a Rock’ takes its interior cues from the surrounding landscape, resulting in a warm, handcrafted aesthetic designed with family in mind.

Sun seeker: Macdonald Road House

Projects | Contemplative and brave, this new house on a prominent corner site eschews the suburban status quo to connect its occupants with their community and climate.

Houses Revisited: Prop forward

Projects | Revisit a bold and brassy house by Guy Tarrant, first published in 2006, which seems eager to grapple with its suburban Auckland street.

Houses Revisited: Valley girls

Projects | From our 2007 archives: With architect John Mills as guide two Wellington clients brave Doubt and Despair to build their House Beautiful.

Houses Revisited: Island adventure

Projects | From 2006: London is not an easy city to leave, but one family decided on a new start, in a new place, in a new house. Now they live on a hill above a Waiheke bay in a contemporary home designed by Geoff Richards.

Dark and stormy: Three Stories North

Projects | Embracing the character of its 1890s shell, this family home features an unusual combination of materials that is at once dark, moody and surprisingly warm.

A finely crafted bunker: Mt Coot-tha House

Projects | An intimate knowledge of both the steep site and the inhabitants shaped the design of a connected family refuge in a eucalypt forest on the outskirts of Brisbane.

Free range

Projects | Jeremy Smith discovers a small ‘mufti day’ in the search for housing when he visits a reworked flour mill by Malcolm Walker Architects.

An abstracted terrace: Fitzroy North House 02

Projects | This curious family home, appearing as an abstracted worker’s cottage from the street, conceals an open design shaped by two verdant garden courtyards.

Following the whenua

Projects | Mark Southcombe visits Parsonson Architects’ Long House in Wellington’s Churton Park and finds a home designed with both landform and landscape in mind.

Houses Revisited: Living inside out

Projects | By the wild entrance of Wellington harbour Studio Pacific Architecture experiment with climate control in this 2007 house from the archives.

Houses Revisited: Villa redux

Projects | In this home that was originally published in 2007, Palladio, not Ponsonby, is the precedent for a Devonport house by Jane Priest and Vanillaspace.

Houses Revisited: Lakeside connections

Projects | Architecture Page Henderson’s Taupo holiday house, first published in 2007, is a sensitive response to site and client requirements.

The Sang House: Retracing an icon

Projects | As beloved late Kiwi architect Ron Sang’s own house prepares to go to auction, Maggie Hubert looks back at the home’s architectural evolution from 1973 to now.

A laid-back state of mind: Sandy Point House

Projects | Embedded in a landscape of sand dunes and scrubland, the kitchen and bathing spaces of this coastal home offer refuge and respite to a family during their much-loved beachside vacations.