Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

Houses Revisited: Return of the native

Projects | A Hawke’s Bay home from Herriot Melhuish O’Neill expresses Waimarama’s changed circumstances and its continuity of spirit.

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.

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.

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.

Garden room: Mount Stuart Greenhouse

Projects | This addition to a grand early-20th-century home reads as a generous garden room that captures the scale and movement of the nearby cypress tree.

Surprising grandeur: Fitzroy Terrace

Projects | New shifts in volume and dramatic apertures to the sky in this Victorian terrace house create the illusion of impossibly spacious proportions.

A calming plan: Courted House

Projects | Embracing the elements inherent in traditional courtyard houses, this home is poised, powerful and surprisingly flexible.

Dramatic contrast: Mayfield Ave Residence

Projects | Wanting a larger outdoor space while also seeking an increase of the internal floor area seems mutually exclusive… or is it?

Black beauty: Kinloch House

Projects | A fresh take on an unconventional building material has resulted in an energy-efficient, low-maintenance house that is turning a lot of heads.

Dichromatic duo: Hello Houses

Projects | Perpetuating the verandah culture that exists in Port Fairy, this pair of houses makes a friendly addition to the neighbourhood.

Uncompromising geometry: Hawthorn House

Projects | Two monolithic pavilions shrouded in concrete result from a skilful balance of architectural expression, material composition and comfort.

Elemental: Jack’s Point house

Projects | This home is at ease within the rugged nature of Queenstown’s landscape.

In Focus: Building smarter (part one)

Practice | We look at what building smarter means for New Zealand and two efficient construction methods as better ways to build in the future.

Encore: Saratoga House

Projects | We visit a Herne Bay home with a honeyed glow and a sweet-sounding past, transformed by Verso Architecture + Interiors.

Coming together: His and Hers House

Projects | Sculpted around the simple daily enactment of the owners’ newly shared life, this addition represents a binding together of stories, memories and moments.

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.

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.