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First Light Studio has created a secondary dwelling in Wellington’s Petone that proves that considered design comes in all shapes and sizes.
Isthmus principal Nick Kapica explains the design for these international-award-winning installations in Auckland’s Hobsonville Point.
Christchurch-based architecture and nature photographer Dennis Radermacher discusses his favourite images and techniques for capturing a project.
Defined by its rectilinear parasol of timber batten, this house prioritizes clarity over pragmatism, geometric consistency over lavishness and poetry over function.
Jeremy Smith considers the compelling proposition of re-use in this poetic preservation of a South Island cabin by Anna-Marie Chin Architects.
B405, the Jasmax-designed UoA Faculty of Engineering mothership, is a building of two halves. Chris Barton comes to terms with it: inside and out.
Edged by an established garden and crowned by an undulating concrete roof-form, this home for collectors is a carefully cultivated expression in concrete and glass.
This award-winning Waiheke home by JDA Studio Architects offers a young family privacy, expansive views and a sophisticated see-through pavilion.
In 2008 near Wellington Heads, Novak & Middleton designed a solid house for a very discerning client: a fusion of Swiss client and Kiwi architect.
First published in 2008, this Tim Dorrington-designed beach house in the Far North is inspired by memories of holidays under canvas.
Robin O’Donnell balances prospect and protection on an Auckland clifftop site in this home from the 2008 archives.
Wellington-based architectural photographer Andy Spain shares his top five houses to shoot and revels in some favourite work stories.
Melanie McDaid explores the new Novotel Christchurch Airport, designed by Warren and Mahoney, which takes its cues from its geographic context.
A monolithic home confidently emerges from the landscape, capturing distant views and forging a connection to the soundscape of its surrounds.
Due to COVID-19, no site visits were allowed at this innovative retirement living facility at the time of writing. But Chris Barton perseveres and is captivated by the space.
Overlooking a sacred pā site, this Dunedin home responds to its sweeping views and the needs of a growing family with considered planning and humble forms.
Taking a restorative approach to the renovation of a sandstone cottage, Benn and Penna has composed contemporary materials to pay homage to the original historic home.
Jasmax’s new Western Springs College and Ngā Puna o Waiōrea Campus compiles spatially exciting buildings at a dramatic scale, but where all the ‘stuff’ has gone?
Architecturepublic has recently unveiled a Remuera home with significant sculptural forms that respond to height-to-boundary restrictions.
From the 2008 archives: Ken Crosson has designed a pair of townhouses in St Heliers that reject rampant individualism.
Look back at this home on Auckland’s West Coast, where Simon Carnachan works up a modernist recipe for a casual beach house.
First published in 2008, we review this early Nineties, sustainable home on the Kapiti Coast by iconic modernist architect Fritz Eisenhofer.
ANZ seeks a natural feel and a touch of biophilia in its new Sylvia Park locale, whose fitout was designed by Warren and Mahoney. Melanie McDaid finds out more.
Sitting quietly above the water and surrounded by newly planted native bush, this home by Kerr Ritchie takes its peaceful place on the shores of Lake Wakatipu.
As Wellington City Council votes to keep the Athfield-designed building, we pull the original review of it from Architecture New Zealand‘s Mar/Apr 1992 issue out of the archives.
The people, places and ideas changing our cities one enclave at a time: The Scrap Yard is a small-but-potent commercial development on a back street in Auckland’s Grey Lynn.
New York’s Apparatus studio’s co-founders, Gabriel Hendifar and Jeremy Anderson, give us a tour of their maximalist and highly detailed loft apartment.
Athfield Architects’ Waitohi Johnsonville Library and Community Hub proves to prioritise placemaking and connections to the urban context.
Architectural photographer Jason Mann takes us behind the lens and shows us some of his favourite recent projects: from a beach bach to a hillside home.
Take a deeper look at this winning project from this year’s Visionary Architecture Awards, which tackles the feelings of discombobulation of current climate conversations.
The house that marketing built: This Los Angeles home, perched above a running stream, was brought to you by… a truckload of brands.
This recently opened project at the gym’s Auckland City locale forms part of a ‘permeable campus’, providing a space which is both flexible and designed to increase community engagement.
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.
In this apartment, proportions and flow are just as important as are surfaces and detail. Art, however, reigns supreme and in complete unison.
Jeremy Smith contemplates the intricate origami planes of the Nelson Airport Terminal and ascends to the Cab of its trapezoid Control Tower.
This home by March Studio navigates the terrain of a sloping site while saluting the mid-century architecture that informed its design.
From the archives: Form follows climate in this home from Strachan Group Architects near Mangawhai Heads, which looks set to take flight.
Look back at a house in wild Wairarapa that reprises the adventure and ambition of Gordon Moller’s early career.
First published in 2008, Paul Clarke has designed a view house in Auckland’s eastern suburbs that preserves a little of the past.
The front door to this villa in Grey Lynn might look typical, but it’s a portal to another time and place.