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Taking a neighbourly approach to design and construction, this addition to a historic attached cottage preserves a connection to a coast-dwelling past.
A contemporary Mason & Wales Architects holiday house in Wanaka pays homage to the ‘crib’, the classic South Island back-country tramping hut.
When day becomes night, the true colours of this Mexican home come out to play.
A restful sanctuary, this house uses carefully considered apertures and subtle texture to create a sense of unencumbered space and levity.
Ancestry, an indie-rock song and an innate desire to keep one’s family safe make this Auckland home unique and truly welcoming.
This humble working man’s cottage has been transformed into a beautiful light-filled home, with an impossibly high ceiling.
This cleverly conceived villa addition offers a strong connection to its outdoor living space, stepping across the site and framing the back garden.
First published in 2009, in this home on the outskirts of Auckland Tim Dorrington designed a pool house, and just kept going.
Revisit this home, where Robin O’Donnell Architects demonstrates a command of space and light in Auckland’s Remuera.
Simple yet impactful alterations and additions to an interwar Sydney bungalow elevate the interiors to bright contemporary living spaces.
Revisit a home in an Auckland inner-city suburb where architect Megan Rule works with the oldest material of all.
Take a look back at an Andrew Patterson-designed contemporary castle with a twist on the cliffs above Auckland’s west coast.
Informed by Roman courtyard houses, this Perth home artfully sculpts a domestic sanctuary out of concrete, timber and light.
At the far reaches of the Hauraki Gulf, revisit a home by Herbst Architects – one in their remarkable series of modern baches.
It is high and low brow, quotes modernism and pop culture, and is functional yet intensely sculptural. Best of all… it is tonnes of fun.
Return to a Copeland Associates home that draws on the tropes of the Kiwi beach settlement for a Coromandel holiday house.
A glazed pavilion acts as a lantern to greet visitors to this Wanaka home by Sumich Chaplin Architects.
Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, this home on a hill of Auckland’s North Shore is steeped in family history and luscious detail.
We look back at a bach on Auckland’s West Coast in which Matthew Gribben pursues an unorthodox design solution.
Concrete and timber join forces in this house to offer a visual and physical experience that is close to architectural magic.
In this home, first published in 2009, Athfield Architects meets the challenge of Cook Strait head on.
The reimagining of this home in Auckland’s Mount Albert champions balance, tactility and the gentle power of detail.
Revisit Gus Watt’s house for his family at Eastbourne: a hand-crafted expression of his design philosophy.
This addition to a Bruny Island bush shack cleverly exaggerates the existing roof form to create volume, drama and dialogue.
Revisit a house on the heights above Christchurch suburb Sumner, where Wilson and Hill dug in to deliver a home out of the box.
We look back at a home in which Paul Leuschke takes a modest budget and creates a farmhouse with room to grow.
Sitting within the bones of a 1960s building, this new studio captures the spirit of the original while opening a new chapter.
Richard Middleton takes design inspiration from a Wairarapa site’s former incarnation as an orchard.
A steep, narrow site on Waiheke Island provided the perfect opportunity for Box to deliver its architecture.
A couple and their extended family share a home made up of two houses that are separate yet delightfully stitched together.
A Central Otago house designed by Tim Dagg blurs the lines of the natural and built environment.
A language of movement is expressed here: as if shaped by the wind, the sun and the ways in which it is used and moved through.
This house by the late Canterbury architect Peter Beaven is a gradual revelation.
Three generations of Bauhaus-influenced artists grace this hillside home.
A subdivided section offers the opportunity to illustrate how a house can fit within a snug site.
Light-filled and airy, this dwelling re-imagines the suburban home and experiments with new modes of multi-generational living.
This house was born from a simple yet idyllic brief: to recapture the relaxed feeling of endless holidays.
A house sitting on the edge of a Wellington cliff provides a challenge for architect Uche Isichei.
An art studio and underground gallery have been added to this Brazilian modernist-inspired home for a creative couple.
A house in Nelson models a design solution that accounts for potential increases in site density.