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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.
This house was born from a simple yet idyllic brief: to recapture the relaxed feeling of endless holidays.
A house sitting on the edge of a Wellington cliff provides a challenge for architect Uche Isichei.
MArch student Jeremy Priest talks about what might happen on the suburban fence line to address the housing crisis.
An art studio and underground gallery have been added to this Brazilian modernist-inspired home for a creative couple.
A house in Nelson models a design solution that accounts for potential increases in site density.
This grand old home exudes a sense of plantation-style luxury: relaxed sunsets and textured, light-filled interiors.
Look back at a house that provides a good example for urban contemporary living in a historically classified inner-city hood.
This restrained addition – which replaces an oversized faux period structure – revolves around a central courtyard.
The revamped interiors of this Hamptons holiday home retain the sense of sophistication for which the area is known.
Revisit a project where a contemporary addition revitalises the service spaces at the back of an existing Wellington house.
This comfortable and unpretentious home is remarkably of its place and creates a compelling dialogue with the neighbourhood.
Built as an upside-down ship’s hull, this home brings the idea of an eternal, maritime summer to a completely different level.
An alteration to a Wellington house responds to the owners’ needs while discreetly experimenting with form and space.
A quest to create something new and iconic in a town populated by colonial-style buildings resulted in this unique space.
Barnaby Bennett and Jessica Halliday give perspective on the exterior architecture of Tūranga, the new ChCh central library.
Privacy and community, work and play, contemplation and collaboration are all themes explored in this 1887 German villa.