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With a background in spatial design, this photographer took up a position behind the lens in 2015. Here, she chronicles her favourite projects to shoot, using her eye for design and more.
From our 2007 archives: With architect John Mills as guide two Wellington clients brave Doubt and Despair to build their House Beautiful.
Revisit a bold and brassy house by Guy Tarrant, first published in 2006, which seems eager to grapple with its suburban Auckland street.
From 2006: London is not an easy city to leave, but one family decided on a new start, in a new place, in a new house. Now they live on a hill above a Waiheke bay in a contemporary home designed by Geoff Richards.
Embracing the character of its 1890s shell, this family home features an unusual combination of materials that is at once dark, moody and surprisingly warm.
Felicity Wallace contemplates the Te Matapihi Bulls Community Centre by Architecture Workshop and finds a building full of wonderful ideas – some, such as its adjacent public square, yet to be completed.
We take a look at the design and creation of these tables from woodworker Yann Gandon of Mobilier Ethique, made from 91 per cent recycled materials and hand-made in Gandon’s workshop in Henderson.
An intimate knowledge of both the steep site and the inhabitants shaped the design of a connected family refuge in a eucalypt forest on the outskirts of Brisbane.
Jeremy Smith discovers a small ‘mufti day’ in the search for housing when he visits a reworked flour mill by Malcolm Walker Architects.
This curious family home, appearing as an abstracted worker’s cottage from the street, conceals an open design shaped by two verdant garden courtyards.
Mark Southcombe visits Parsonson Architects’ Long House in Wellington’s Churton Park and finds a home designed with both landform and landscape in mind.
By the wild entrance of Wellington harbour Studio Pacific Architecture experiment with climate control in this 2007 house from the archives.
In this home that was originally published in 2007, Palladio, not Ponsonby, is the precedent for a Devonport house by Jane Priest and Vanillaspace.
Architecture Page Henderson’s Taupo holiday house, first published in 2007, is a sensitive response to site and client requirements.
A 3D-printed pou – perhaps the first in the world – has been unveiled at MIT’s TechPark campus. We caught up with Neill Laurenson, who devised the concept, about blending new technology with ancient design.
Photographer Jackie Meiring has over two decades of experience. We asked her to choose some of her favourite projects in New Zealand. Contemporary beach houses and mid-century modern dwellings alike made the list.
Mark Southcombe finds the essential character of Wellington’s Cuba Street in Athfield Architects’ remaking of the Farmers Building and adjoining buildings to be a sensitive bridging of time.
As beloved late Kiwi architect Ron Sang’s own house prepares to go to auction, Maggie Hubert looks back at the home’s architectural evolution from 1973 to now.
Embedded in a landscape of sand dunes and scrubland, the kitchen and bathing spaces of this coastal home offer refuge and respite to a family during their much-loved beachside vacations.
Alongside this boutique gym’s first space, opened in 2018, a second studio space designed by Mijntje Lepoutre offers both continuity and change for the brand.
Behind the heritage facade of two pre-existing houses, this new home for a family of five strikes a balance between quietude and noise, between fun and functionality.
In the Hihiaua Cultural Centre by Moller Architects, Mike Austin finds an example of modest, bicultural architecture, which is well-grounded in the local.
In the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, a new cottage shirks polite defensiveness for porosity, contributing generously to its streetscape while also enabling quiet repose.
Look back at this house from our 2007 archives: In Wanganui, Dalgleish Architects look beyond precedent to design a ‘new traditional home’.
Faced with a spectacular but challenging East Coast site Nicoll Blackburne Architects took to the tent in this home, first published in 2007.
A look back at a 2007 design by Eva Nash (neé Segedin): A beachfront house in a lifestyle capital gives the opportunity to demonstrate filial devotion.
This creative splits his time between working as an architect and taking photos of architecture. We caught up with him to hear about his favourite projects and how he balances art and building.
Merging tectonics, landscape and family life, this addition to a 1970s family home celebrates the poetry and pragmatism of cross-laminated timber.
Bill McKay is transported to ancient Rome as he explores the curvilinear market place of Foodstuffs’ North Island HQ by Monk Mackenzie.
This NZIA Local Award-winning home in Nelson by Jerram Tocker Barron Architects explores verticality and perforation on its somewhat constrained suburban site.
This topographical map of New Zealand is handmade from 100 per cent birch ply. We talk to designer Jonty McCool about the process of making it.
An addition to an 1860s cottage, this allows passers-by a glimpse into the history of its suburb while affording those who live there a home that is distinctly their own.
In the last in our series, Amanda Harkness visits Te Ao Mārama’s retail and hospitality offerings, designed by Ignite in association with Studio Pasifika, and Jack McKinney Architects, and finds evidence of artful adaptation and reuse.
Apparently transparent but surprisingly private, in a famous tradition but hardly traditional, this Remuera house from 2007 is cool, calm and clever.
From our 2007 archives: An Auckland house is tailored to suit a tight suburban site, with a balance of connection and separation.
First published in 2007, this house thrusts itself from its site and above its conventional Wanaka neighbours, taking advantage of both lake and valley views.
The second in our series: Chris Barton contemplates the new column-fins of Te Ao Mārama’s design and their connection to the nautilus shell spiral and the golden mean.
Immersed in a tumbling hillside garden, this reworking of a classic bungalow eschews suburban tropes in favour of spaces that foster connection with the landscape.
Albert Refiti discusses the vitality of naming, the cross-cultural myth-histories and the moana architecture of this makeover by Jasmax, FJMT and designTRIBE at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
With civic ambition and a highly personal attention to detail, this ‘house of many rooms’ is a considered new layer in the cultural palimpsest of an inner-city vernacular.