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A flood-prone site in Mairangi Bay has become home to a childcare centre with a difference.
Ian Lochhead on Te Pae, Christchurch’s new $450-million convention centre by Woods Bagot in association with Warren and Mahoney.
Simon Wilson is an Auckland-based photographer and filmmaker, specialising in architecture and interiors.
Bespoke commercial interiors specialists Cachet Group has transformed 205Q Hive and Lobby on Auckland’s Queen Street for its clients Roxy-Pacific Holdings, with a vibrant new look featuring a selection of Warwick Fabrics.
A curated journey to the shoreline is forged through the renovation of this home in Cass Bay, near Lyttelton.
Bill McKay explores the Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangārei by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, in collaboration with HB Architecture, Springmann Architektur and the Hundertwasser Non Profit Foundation.
A house at the foothills of the Richmond Ranges, designed by architect Guy Herschell, finds inspiration from local forms, first published in 2011.
A series of solid buildings are lightly linked in this west Auckland house, designed by Context Architects, first published in 2011.
Sarah Scott Architects have designed a warm and inviting holiday house in Wānaka, that works for every season, first published in 2011.
In the new 2degrees headquarters on Auckland’s Fanshawe Street, an Escher-like stair moves up, down and sideways, breaking down the silos and dialling up the fun. Amanda Harkness visits the Warren and Mahoney-designed workplace.
A clever floorplan allows for maximum outdoor space while providing sea views and boat storage on a limited site.
Melbourne-based John Gollings is a renowned, prolific photographer who has been photographing buildings for more than 40 years.
University of Auckland Social Sciences Building (B201) awarded highest Green Star rating.
This thoughtful collaboration between an Italian architect and his Cantabrian clients offers both a sense of enclosure and one of release, with a subtle nod to the architect’s Roman roots.
Lance Herbst’s small apartment building in Parnell is a top-end model of clarity, first published in 2006.
Jonathan Smith has designed a modest, modern house that makes the most of a challenging section, first published in 2011.
The Architecture Office have brought a little bit of suburbia to a city edge apartment, first published in 2006.
Jasper van der Lingen visits Patterson Associates Architects’ Ravenscar House Museum in Christchurch and finds a reawakening of the city’s past architectural pleasures.
Jeremy Smith visits Strachan Group Architects’ My Whare, an initiative to help combat youth homelessness in conjunction with Visionwest, and finds these tiny dwellings are filled with aroha.
In the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, Jasmax, in collaboration with Haumi, has brought the concept of kaitiakitanga to the world.
Guy Marriage investigates the flamboyant façade and innovative climbing formwork of The Pacifica, Auckland’s towering 56-floor apartment building by Plus Architecture.
Following the contours of its site in Bendemeer Estate near Queenstown, this visually understated home offers a luxurious residence within.
From December 2019 to March 2021, the value of New Zealand’s housing stock increased by $324 billion or about $65K per person in our team of five million.
In the final part of this three-part series, we look at a project that brings together many aspects of environmental design and re-use that come together to create this unique home for its owner.
In this large Christchurch house, Wilson and Hill Architects continue their exploration of contemporary Modernism, first published in 2006.
RTA Studio navigates through a minefield of rules and regulations at Torpedo Bay, first published in 2006.
A Remuera house by Godward Guthrie Architecture is respectful but not too formal, first published in 2006.
New Zealand-born photographer Mary Gaudin, now Montpellier-based, shares with us her top five projects and explains how choosing books in her local library led her to a career in photography.
Queenstown’s Central Private Hotel was named as this year’s Grand Prix award-winner at the Dulux Colour Awards. We talk to Undercurrent director Liv Macfarlane about the thinking behind this stand-out design and how the selection of Warwick Fabrics was integral to the final result.
Located in a recently developed section of Arthur’s Point, a hillside neighbourhood close to Coronet Peak and overlooking the Shotover River, Steel House was designed as a first home for a young family.
Working with design-literate clients, and his builder brother, Michael Melville has fused seventies suburban optimism and contemporary experimentation, first published in 2006.
On Wellington’s wild southern shore Rafe Maclean has designed a brave little house for his family, first published in 2006.
The art in this Gerald Parsonson house in the Wellington hinterlands is visible on the inside and the out, first published in 2006.
Auckland-based architectural photographer Sam Hartnett sees beauty in places where we often don’t expect it.
An insertion into an industrial section of the city, this new wellness retreat model provides a range of calming spaces for the rejuvenation of both mind and body.
The traditional workplace rule book was thrown out for this immersive, gamified experience that Unispace created for this Auckland game studio, a finalist in the 2021 Interior Awards.
This 2006 home from Arthouse Architecture sits above a Nelson beach and demonstrates a relaxed form of maritime modernism.
Godward Guthrie’s Coromandel bach from our 2006 archives is an exercise in self-containment and self-conscious nostalgia.
At ostentatious Omaha Aimer Naismith Architects have acknowledged the simpler bach tradition with the design of this home, first published in 2006.
David St George has a special talent of being able to capture not only a space but also the people in it. Here, he recounts his top five favourite projects: exhibitions, studio processes, large-scale infrastructure and more.