Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

A dignified return: Drill Hall House

Projects | Tobias Partners takes a curatorial hammer to a previously modified drill hall, reinstating the clarity of the original building form and create a reposeful home.

Suburban starship: Studley Park House

Projects | This home by March Studio navigates the terrain of a sloping site while saluting the mid-century architecture that informed its design.

Houses Revisited: Still on top

Projects | Look back at a house in wild Wairarapa that reprises the adventure and ambition of Gordon Moller’s early career.

Houses Revisited: Nesting instinct

Projects | From the archives: Form follows climate in this home from Strachan Group Architects near Mangawhai Heads, which looks set to take flight.

Houses revisited: Mission statement

Projects | First published in 2008, Paul Clarke has designed a view house in Auckland’s eastern suburbs that preserves a little of the past.

Courtyard dreams

Projects | The front door to this villa in Grey Lynn might look typical, but it’s a portal to another time and place.

Desirable abode

Projects | We caught up with Barry Condon of Condon Scott Architects to talk about the design of this new home in Wanaka.

Extra-ordinary

Projects | With brick as the predominant material, this house is like a contemporary rendition of an historic ruin, affirming the pedestal of brick in architecture.

The ‘C’ word: Escape to Kawau Island

Projects | Photographer Alex Wallace remembers an idyllic weekend at a Kawau Island bach, designed by Auckland-based ICR Studio.

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.

Behind the scenes: Remuera renovation

Projects | Go beyond the everyday face of this Remuera home, originally built in the 1940s, to discover an unexpected touch of star power.

Houses Revisited: Sympathetic intervention

Projects | We revisit a project from the March 2009 issue of Houses where Michael Fisher takes an Auckland art deco house through the rehab process.

Houses Revisited: High society

Projects | From the Houses archives: a penthouse apartment by Cook Sargission & Pirie provides clear evidence of the rise of Freemans Bay.