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Mark Southcombe explores the architectural legacy of Whanganui Collegiate School and its new additions by RTA Studio.
Set within a brazen, nonconformist building of 11 bespoke apartments, this abode fittingly offers an edge to Melbourne’s bohemian suburb.
A contemporary Mason & Wales Architects holiday house in Wanaka pays homage to the ‘crib’, the classic South Island back-country tramping hut.
When day becomes night, the true colours of this Mexican home come out to play.
A restful sanctuary, this house uses carefully considered apertures and subtle texture to create a sense of unencumbered space and levity.
Ancestry, an indie-rock song and an innate desire to keep one’s family safe make this Auckland home unique and truly welcoming.
The newly renovated Holiday Inn near Auckland Airport presents a bright and welcoming front with a contemporary, Pacific-inspired aesthetic.
This wonderland of bold moves and blue-chip artworks is a paean to taste on the Portuguese coast.
This humble working man’s cottage has been transformed into a beautiful light-filled home, with an impossibly high ceiling.
In her project Not a Monastery: Transposing and interpreting the ancient typology, student Emily Pearce weaves together old and new to create an artisan school.
The brief for this Sydney apartment called for a concrete box… the result, surprisingly, is a warm and inviting gem.
This small space is home to an emergency doctor, Albóndiga (Meatball, his pet bulldog) and a large collection of pot plants.
With a clear mandate to be elegant, yet passive, Queenstown’s Team Green Architects has delivered a home that is powerful in many respects.
Mark Simpson, joint creative director at Melbourne’s DesignOffice, talks about the firm’s new Auckland fit-out for retailer Superette.
This cleverly conceived villa addition offers a strong connection to its outdoor living space, stepping across the site and framing the back garden.
MArch student Emily Newmarch’s project responds to a world where the traditional hearth has become a subjective accessory and achieving a warmth is focused on machines.
This not-so-small Manhattan apartment is a delightful example of the magic that colour can bring to a previously dark enclosure.
First published in 2009, in this home on the outskirts of Auckland Tim Dorrington designed a pool house, and just kept going.
Sustainability, staff comfort and a few wow moments are at the core of Mercury’s new headquarters in Newmarket.
This compact home is full of designer furniture and surrounded by a landscape of lakes and forests.
Revisit this home, where Robin O’Donnell Architects demonstrates a command of space and light in Auckland’s Remuera.
Simple yet impactful alterations and additions to an interwar Sydney bungalow elevate the interiors to bright contemporary living spaces.
Architectural photographer Casey Dunn worked with architects to create a simple yet modern East Austin home that is an oasis of style.
This generous apartment packs a lot of living into a relatively small area, and does so with refined Italian style.
Revisit a home in an Auckland inner-city suburb where architect Megan Rule works with the oldest material of all.
Chris Barton finds the undulating roof lines of this lodge by Architecture Workshop at one with the topography that inspired them.
This tiny Spanish apartment oozes colour, graphic flair and personality while residing a stone’s throw away from the Sagrada Familia.
Take a look back at an Andrew Patterson-designed contemporary castle with a twist on the cliffs above Auckland’s west coast.
Informed by Roman courtyard houses, this Perth home artfully sculpts a domestic sanctuary out of concrete, timber and light.
At the far reaches of the Hauraki Gulf, revisit a home by Herbst Architects – one in their remarkable series of modern baches.
It is high and low brow, quotes modernism and pop culture, and is functional yet intensely sculptural. Best of all… it is tonnes of fun.
Return to a Copeland Associates home that draws on the tropes of the Kiwi beach settlement for a Coromandel holiday house.
A glazed pavilion acts as a lantern to greet visitors to this Wanaka home by Sumich Chaplin Architects.
Guy Marriage explores the ways in which Tennent Brown Architects has helped nurture the Ngā Purapura kākano at Ōtaki to create Te Ara a Tāwhaki.
Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, this home on a hill of Auckland’s North Shore is steeped in family history and luscious detail.
We look back at a bach on Auckland’s West Coast in which Matthew Gribben pursues an unorthodox design solution.
This co-working space on Auckland’s North Shore is, by all accounts, a success story for its owners and its tenants.
Concrete and timber join forces in this house to offer a visual and physical experience that is close to architectural magic.
In this home, first published in 2009, Athfield Architects meets the challenge of Cook Strait head on.
Ian Lochhead celebrates the extraordinary engineering gymnastics employed to renew the Christchurch Town Hall.