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A 125-old school has two new post-earthquake buildings which put friendships at the core of their design ethos.
Form and function – a showpiece kitchen with substance.
History, geology and industry combine in a waterfront project that’s a hybrid of street and park.
An ovoid bubble of space covers ASC Architects’ new swimming-pool complex, sited on top of Paraparaumu’s sand dunes.
Following the recent passing of architect Bill Toomath, Houses takes another look at the maestro’s own house as featured in the September 2007 issue.
A clever, cantilevered design allows a modern Australian home to make the most of incredible ocean views.
A $42 million revamp of four former brewery buildings is nearing completion after an extremely tight nine-month construction period.
Opus Architecture has amalgamated a complex series of buildings from different eras on Napier’s 150-year-old museum site.
An American home makes the most of a small site and its close proximity to a fabulous beach.
Collingridge And Smith Architects’ childcare centre breaks typical form with its sawtoothed roof and triangular-shaped plan.
Muriwai’s new surf lifesaving clubhouse, designed by Jasmax, is set 300m back from its rapidly eroding coastline.
Architectus and Athfield Architects have joined forces to design an educational complex.
An apartment in an exclusive harbourside neighbourhood of Sydney undergoes a sleek, modern facelift.
Salmond Reed Architects has married an existing Victorian villa with a new cantilevered form on Auckland’s Ponsonby Road.
Isthmus and Studio Pacific combine forces on an upgrade to Wellington’s single-biggest social housing complex.
A Kapiti Coast beach house has been designed around difficult topography – and a phenomenal vista – to great effect.
The new police headquarters in Rotorua merges culture and innovation, and develops the application of PRESSS technology.
Creative Spaces helps move Lion into an expansive and colourful new head office in Freeman’s Bay.
Reworking of this 20-year-old theatre has received rapturous applause from those that play there.
Subtle twists – a south-facing triangular site conjures a house of twists and turns. First published in 2013.
Warren and Mahoney’s elegantly sinuous bridge spans Auckland’s Tamaki Drive, connecting Parnell.
A humble mechanic’s workshop in a developing part of town gets a full makeover.
A new 265m-long rolling bascule bridge in Whangarei, designed by Knight Architects, interprets the Maori fish-hook form.
New Zealand’s most advanced sustainable building is complete, after an 11-month build that posed significant challenges.
A subtle process of subtraction and addition underpins this heritage building’s reworking into a modern office space.
Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter’s first flagship office building, designed by BVN Donovan Hill in association with Jasmax.
A major renovation of a grand old Auckland villa has resulted in a traditional frontage and a super-modern interior.
Art deco-influenced new architecture near the top of New Zealand’s tallest building.
Jasmax applies a light touch to the refurbishment of one of the last remaining industrial buildings on Auckland’s waterfront.
A development carved out of the floor of a former quarry, resembles, in part, just what it states.
A walk around the outside of AUT University’s latest addition.
Andy Davies explains how his mixed-tenancy outfit, Ponsonby Central, came together.
This triangular building gains its strength from a mass of concrete and steel reinforcing, and its circular core.
A world-class cycling facility is taking shape near Cambridge. We talked to Livingstone Builders about this complex build.
Renovation of the ANZ Centre in Auckland focuses on the fitout works undertaken by Warren and Mahoney and Hassell.
Small in stature it may be, but this bathroom punches well above its weight.
An Auckland villa is transformed into a family home filled with curios and Victoriana.
Inside ASB’s new regional branch in Tauranga, a workplace where an overt theme takes precedence over company branding.
A shared palette of materials gives these bathrooms cohesion, while individual colour schemes give them character.