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Dorita Hannah explores Diocesan School for Girls’ basilica-like Performing Arts Centre by McIldowie Partners in association with Upton Architects and what it highlights about the value of theatre in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau.
With its golden curves and glowing forms, this year’s Interior Award-winning Retail project, the Comvita Wellness Lab, is designed to bring us closer to nature and help us fall in love with bees again.
Architect Sam Caradus from Crosson Architects explores and contrasts material and form in the Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Local Award-winning Light and Clay.
Jeremy Smith samples the high life low down at the a r + d and Bossley Architects-designed Park Hyatt in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter.
On an island escape, in an area populated by white gums and stands of grass trees, this holiday home for a young family serves as an elegant living platform that offers many ways to enjoy its bush setting.
Look back at this home from 2006: Xsite Architecture’s wooden ark is tailor made for this slightly alternative, somewhat post-hippy site in one of the farther reaches of West Auckland.
From the archives: On a fine old Auckland street, Robin O’Donnell has extended the life of a time-worn Arts and Crafts house with ‘good bones’.
Sited on a grassy spur above Waimea Inlet this house, first published in 2006, by Jeremy Smith looks east to Tasman Bay and west to the Kahurangi mountains.
This NZIA Local Award winner takes inspiration from the Pacific Rim, creating a flexible space that offers the comforts of home but can function as a luxury lodge, all poised under an undulating roofline.
An earthy colour palette brings the surrounding bushland inside this laidback yet sophisticated refuge that playfully acknowledges its mid-century modernist roots.
Athfield Architects associate Kim Salt discusses the thinking behind the fit-out of the NZIA-award-winning space for lead tenant Greater Wellington Regional Council.
This year’s Interior Awards finalist ‘House on a Rock’ takes its interior cues from the surrounding landscape, resulting in a warm, handcrafted aesthetic designed with family in mind.
Contemplative and brave, this new house on a prominent corner site eschews the suburban status quo to connect its occupants with their community and climate.
Design Assembly speaks with Clem Devine and Jarrad Caine at Jasmax about their incredible environmental graphic work recently installed at AUT’s Te Āhuru recreation centre.
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.