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Houses Revisited: Valley girls
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Cacophony of roofs: Rae Rae House
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Behind the heritage facade of two pre-existing houses, this new home for a family of five strikes a balance between quietude and noise, between fun and functionality.
Marvellous town life: Cloud Cottage
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In the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, a new cottage shirks polite defensiveness for porosity, contributing generously to its streetscape while also enabling quiet repose.
Houses Revisited: Back to black
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Look back at this house from our 2007 archives: In Wanganui, Dalgleish Architects look beyond precedent to design a ‘new traditional home’.
Houses Revisited: Happy camper
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Faced with a spectacular but challenging East Coast site Nicoll Blackburne Architects took to the tent in this home, first published in 2007.
Houses Revisited: Family court
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A look back at a 2007 design by Eva Nash (neé Segedin): A beachfront house in a lifestyle capital gives the opportunity to demonstrate filial devotion.
Bold and rhythmic: CLT House
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Merging tectonics, landscape and family life, this addition to a 1970s family home celebrates the poetry and pragmatism of cross-laminated timber.
Triple threat: Collingwood Street Residence
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This NZIA Local Award-winning home in Nelson by Jerram Tocker Barron Architects explores verticality and perforation on its somewhat constrained suburban site.
A sense of familiarity and nostalgia: Highgate Park House
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An addition to an 1860s cottage, this allows passers-by a glimpse into the history of its suburb while affording those who live there a home that is distinctly their own.