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A home on Waiheke Island features bright, bold architectural details and an impressive collection of colourful art.
Interior heads down to Christchurch for a look at a hospitality institution making a new mark in a classic building.
A kitchen makeover by Godward Guthrie stays true to its modernist roots.
A generously proportioned and surprisingly sinous project at Auckland Airport.
An Auckland renovation by Glamuzina Paterson Architects creates a stylish and spacious kitchen, and living space.
A long-established advertising agency undertakes reinvention and becomes a cornerstone tenant with an interesting backstory.
A Gordon Moller home is treated to a meticulous renovation in the eastern suburbs of Wellington.
Utilising bespoke building methods, a wellness centre near Queenstown is the first of its kind in New Zealand.
Behind Auckland’s Ponsonby Road shopping mecca is RTA Studio’s stunning retail precinct.
Irving Smith Jack Architects’ adaptive reuse of a former Briscoes retail box has given the abandoned building new life.
Tennent + Brown Architects’ community sports centre in Wellington deals with its harsh environs with aplomb.
Advertising agency JWT move into the Imperial Buildings and enlist the skills of Fearon Hay for their fit-out.
A 141-metre back country suspension bridge is the longest of its kind to be built in New Zealand since 1926.
Three35 is the first building in New Zealand, and possibly the world, to utilise an innovative damage avoidance technology.
Two young designers box clever within the narrow confines of milk and cookies.
A new venture by the founders of YouTube sets up shop in the Deep South.
Sinuous sheets of perforated metal winds through the interior of this classic Wellington building designed by Studio Pacific.
A brilliant landscape device by Baracco + Wright Architects solves a suburban privacy issue.
Reset Urban Design puts in place a number of intitiatives to turn Waiuku back to the river.
Auckland’s East Quadrant finished office building by Dominion Constructors creates a vibrant eastern gateway to the city.
New Zealand’s broad range spread of landscapes is now replicated at Te Wao Nui, the New Zealand precinct at Auckland Zoo.
On the headlands of Waiheke Island’s southern slopes, the Bossley Architects-designed Omana Luxury Villa project successfully utilises an ecologically sustainable design.
A suburban retreat married to the landscape in the heart of Auckland.
A Category II tunnel in one of Wellington’s largest suburbs is earthquake-strengthened by Fulton Hogan.
This house by Ponting Fitzgerald is a complex exercise in layering of spaces from the street to the sea.
Drama and a sense of community within this Auckland building’s medieval-like laneways of the future by Patterson Associates.
A dramatic volume links the duo of black-and-white box forms in Wellington.
This heavy-timber structure on the edge of Christchurch’s red zone will house IT companies displaced by the earthquakes.
A well-organised backdrop for musical endeavour and vitality by Architectus.
The administration building of Tip Top’s iconic Auckland factory has had a makeover. Progressive Building gets up close.
RTA Studio and the Longview Environmental Trust’s earth-friendly 3C house mixes environmental work with design pleasure.
Fine materials and precision detailing pair up in these bathrooms by Kerry Avery.
Two bathrooms in this architect’s house are family-fit in form and function.
One of New Zealand’s most notorious historic hotels has been transformed by Atelierworkshop.
Together with Daryl Jackson of Sydney, Jasmax has created a more connected and student-centred space.
Sport and higher learning move a little closer together at a University of Otago satellite campus by Warren and Mahoney.
Function is paired with fine finishes in the bathrooms and laundry of this house designed by Hilary Scully.
Warren and Mahoney has designed two student accommodation blocks to meet increasing demand and expectations.
A Hamilton law firm with a 90-plus-year history is led into a forward-thinking fit-out by Wingate + Farquhar.
Tucked into the bush in West Auckland, this house has bathrooms that respond to the natural environment. First published in 2012.