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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.
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 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.
Merging tectonics, landscape and family life, this addition to a 1970s family home celebrates the poetry and pragmatism of cross-laminated timber.
This NZIA Local Award-winning home in Nelson by Jerram Tocker Barron Architects explores verticality and perforation on its somewhat constrained suburban site.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This home of Sheppard and Rout director Tim Dagg holds a few unexpected yet delightful design moves beyond its colourful exterior.
With space an increasingly rare commodity in central Auckland, this renovation has created an oasis that is sheltered behind natural exteriors and the strategic use of landscaping.
First published in September 2007, David Ponting and Richard George opt for a fluid formalism in an old Auckland clerical suburb.
From the 2007 archives: In a paddock outside Levin, Chris Johns designed a comfortable and disarmingly simple country home.
Revisit this home from our 2007 archives: Padma Naidu’s own house on a small Auckland section offers a lesson in modern suburban design.
This calm, compact dwelling at the rear of a Victorian terrace represents an alternative to conventional home designs that will become increasingly valuable as our urban centres densify and household sizes decrease.
Architecture Architecture has created a tranquil home for an artist and a curator on this slice of suburbia – the legacy of a 1940s attempt to marry housing and countryside.
An economy of planning and a luxury of volume characterise this Gerald Parsonson bach at Raumati, first published in 2007.
An enduring design even at the time of publishing in 2007, Jack Manning’s Stanley Point house is testament to a gentler place and time.
From September 2007: On an exposed site with a huge panorama, Strachan Group Architects (SGA) provides shelter and dissolves boundaries.
Behind what appears to be a single house in a suburban neighbourhood, two homes offer enough flexibility for both households to enjoy their different stages of life.
Touching the earth lightly, this off-grid house by Chrofi located in a beachside forest, displays the potential for prefabrication to deliver high-quality design in any location.
Jeremy Smith discovers the Wrightmann House in Christchurch, where considered architectural curatorship by Athfield Architects has given every wall a voice.
Gerald Parsonson’s holiday house at Paraparaumu, first published in 2007, is a triumph of substance over style.
In another 2007 project from Gerald Parsonson, an assured house at Peka Peka rides the dunes rolling inland from an untamed coast.
In Auckland’s most established suburb, Malcolm Walker demonstrates a deft touch with shape and space with this house from 2007.
Wrapped in charred timber cladding and hugged tightly by a lush suburban garden, this discreet addition to an existing cottage expertly balances function and folly.
Megan Edwards visits Patchwork Architecture’s award-winning project in Wellington and finds a playful, elegant and environmentally efficient architectural solution on a scrap of leftover hillside.
Taranaki-based architects Brady and Sarah Gibbons have been part of the growing architecture scene in this up and coming region since 2013. We explore some of their recent work.
Tucked behind an existing heritage home on a tight block with a south-facing yard, this generous addition offers light-filled, textured spaces with a natural, earthy palette.
In pastoral Waikato, RTA Studio employ vernacular forms to create an inland holiday house that was first published in 2007.
Tough materials and flexible spaces characterise Archimedia’s Hamilton house by the Waikato River, from the Houses magazine 2007 archives.
Strict conditions on a vulnerable coastal site lead Godward Guthrie to develop clever solutions in the design for this house from 2007.
This rear addition to a heritage cottage on a raised corner block sits in harmony with the existing structure and enhances its cherished “ramshackle” nature.
North of Auckland, Herbst Architects again produce a sophisticated response to climate and context in this house that we revisit from 2008.