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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.
The reimagining of this home in Auckland’s Mount Albert champions balance, tactility and the gentle power of detail.
Revisit Gus Watt’s house for his family at Eastbourne: a hand-crafted expression of his design philosophy.
Wellington’s cityscape and natural textures are brought inside Deloitte’s new headquarters.
This addition to a Bruny Island bush shack cleverly exaggerates the existing roof form to create volume, drama and dialogue.
Revisit a house on the heights above Christchurch suburb Sumner, where Wilson and Hill dug in to deliver a home out of the box.
Plant & Food Research’s Mount Albert site has received a radical makeover by Bossley Architects and Lab-works Architecture.
This apartment bridges three buildings from two different centuries through impeccable décor and a hefty comic book collection.
We look back at a home in which Paul Leuschke takes a modest budget and creates a farmhouse with room to grow.
Sitting within the bones of a 1960s building, this new studio captures the spirit of the original while opening a new chapter.
Richard Middleton takes design inspiration from a Wairarapa site’s former incarnation as an orchard.
A new project in Hamilton combining an old and new structure showcases many glazing options from APL Window Solutions.
A steep, narrow site on Waiheke Island provided the perfect opportunity for Box to deliver its architecture.
From hospital to office, Dr Andrew Barrie traces the changing face of educational architecture.
A couple and their extended family share a home made up of two houses that are separate yet delightfully stitched together.
A Central Otago house designed by Tim Dagg blurs the lines of the natural and built environment.
A careful negotiation of waterfront access and industrial relations is contained in this commercial space.
A language of movement is expressed here: as if shaped by the wind, the sun and the ways in which it is used and moved through.
This house by the late Canterbury architect Peter Beaven is a gradual revelation.
A hotel in Auckland takes on a volcanic theme and a celebrity fashion designer to inject personality and a lot of oomph.
Julia Gatley delights in the dialogue between old and new in RTA Studio’s revitalisation of this Fred Newman building.
Three generations of Bauhaus-influenced artists grace this hillside home.
A subdivided section offers the opportunity to illustrate how a house can fit within a snug site.
Light-filled and airy, this dwelling re-imagines the suburban home and experiments with new modes of multi-generational living.
This work sets a new standard on Wellington’s shaky waterfront ground. Guy Marriage dissects the building’s DNA.