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An urban eyrie enjoys views of Auckland’s most iconic built and natural landscapes.
Jasmax has drawn inspiration from West Auckland’s Pacific heritage for one of the largest secondary schools in New Zealand.
Oko Dessert Kitchen merges contemporary with classic, with a traditional baker’s marble countertop stealing the show.
Medibank enlisted design firm Hassell to create a head office in Melbourne where employees choose how and where they work.
A $200-million infant milk formula plant in the Waikato is the latest addition to the dairy landscape.
M3 Architecture’s design for this holiday retreat wisely defers to its dense surroundings on the northern Queensland coast.
The narrative of the heritage building – and the 150-year old clothing brand – informed the raw industrial look of this interior fit-out.
RTA Studio has designed a colourful, low-cost Māori immersion school on a plan conceived of ley lines drawn by significant markers in the local landscape.
Just outside Los Angeles, a former avian sanctuary is now a peaceful retreat for an interior designer.
The Fearon Hay-designed flagship store for Kiwi fashion label Stolen Girlfriends Club works its rock-and-roll aesthetic.
Brightly coloured and multifunctional, this building serves as the community services centre for a small Canterbury town.
Is it possible to create a space that captures, frames and celebrates the constant movement of Len Lye’s work?
In 1985 David Mitchell was commissioned to design a modest house in Muriwai. Thirty years on, he remembers the process.
The games village is envisaged as a point of engagement between the heart of the country, its people and the outside world.
Robin Williams Architect’s Villa Marittima has won the 2015 Australian National Architecture Awards People’s Choice Award.
This Sydney house follows Isamu Noguchi’s philosophy that art should “disappear” or become one with its surroundings.
Set in the Cardrona Valley is a building the sight of which is sure to warm the cockles on a cold winter’s morn.
With its roots in Pacific culture, Archimedia’s new community centre has been likened to “a giant musical instrument”.
Isthmus’ design concept is thought to be the world’s largest such coastal reclamation project for recreational purposes.
A modest 1970s brick house in Melbourne’s inner south-east is given a renewed, quiet confidence.
Kiwi architect Daniel Lewis is part of the team that has won the coveted 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize for best new UK building.
Michael O’Sullivan has an unconventional architectural approach as client, architect and builder of his Lyttleton studio.
Smart Design Studio performed “radical and transformative surgery” on a Victorian house in Sydney to create a well-lit home.
Auckland’s version of an iconic, 52-year-old hospitality spot in Wellington pays well-informed homage to its predecessor.
ArchitectureNow looks back over 2014’s top five highest-viewed residential projects.
Patterson Associates’ sculptural art gallery invokes the spirit of renowned Kiwi artist Len Lye and New Plymouth’s culture.
An atmosphere of breezy laid-back luxury imbues this new retail space, befitting its suburban location.
The angular forms of this large house create a play of light and shadow that mimics the alpine environment in which it sits, first published in 2015.
Architect-designed to engage with the expansive gardens and surrounding landscape, this house is a creative labour of love.
This Queenstown home has a seamless connection to its surrounding landscape.
A juxtaposition of materials, coupled with bold lines, produces a visually arresting family home, first published in 2015.
Jasmax has involved the community in the form and functions of its design for a library in Rānui, West Auckland.
Designed in 1969, this house embodies a personalized vision for living in Australia that is still relevant today.
A years-long love affair with the Otago region has finally borne fruit for an ex-pat family a long way from home, first published in 2015.
Moller Architects’ library and community centre features dynamic interior spaces and façade sunscreens.
A multidiscipline sports centre in Ashburton sets the scene for future developments of this nature.
Created to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, the first major battle for Anzac soldiers in WWI.
With spring upon us, Architecture Now showcases some of the most interesting forest-situated homes of the last five years.
Abundant greenery, vibrant colour and organic shapes conjure up a lush oasis in the middle of Auckland’s CBD.
World-first technology has given Young Hunter House in Christchurch the ability to withstand a one-in-2500-year seismic event.