Peta Nichols

Contributor Profile

Peta Nicols is based in London, but hails from New Zealand and has experience in Sydney, Australia, where she is a registered as an architect. She has previously worked as editor for Houses magazine and editorial assistant for Architecture NZ and Urbis magazines.

Occupation: Writer

Location: Australia

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.

Houses Revisited: Mutual support

Projects | Take a look back at this home, first published in 2009: a Malcolm Taylor project by the Waikato River that shows architect and builder can get along fine.

Houses Revisited: Down to earth

Projects | Revisit a home in an Auckland inner-city suburb where architect Megan Rule works with the oldest material of all.

Houses Revisited: Happy camping

Projects | Return to a Copeland Associates home that draws on the tropes of the Kiwi beach settlement for a Coromandel holiday house.

Houses Revisited: Complex solution

Projects | We look back at a bach on Auckland’s West Coast in which Matthew Gribben pursues an unorthodox design solution.

Houses Revisited: Living in the view

Projects | A Central Otago house designed by Tim Dagg blurs the lines of the natural and built environment.

Interview with Nathan Goldsworthy

People | A one-on-one with a New Zealand furniture designer with a point of difference.