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Sculpting form and material

Sculpting form and material

Posted: 13 Oct 2021

Architect Sam Caradus from Crosson Architects explores and contrasts material and form in the Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Local Award-winning Light and Clay.

Found in translation

Found in translation

Posted: 6 Oct 2021

Jeremy Smith samples the high life low down at the a r + d and Bossley Architects-designed Park Hyatt in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter.

A cosy getaway: Killora Bay

A cosy getaway: Killora Bay

Posted: 27 Sep 2021

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.

Houses Revisited: Tree house

Houses Revisited: Tree house

Posted: 24 Sep 2021

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.

Houses Revisited: Orthopaedic surgery

Houses Revisited: Orthopaedic surgery

Posted: 24 Sep 2021

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’.

Houses Revisited: Full nelson

Houses Revisited: Full nelson

Posted: 24 Sep 2021

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.

Taking flight: Falcon Brae

Taking flight: Falcon Brae

Posted: 22 Sep 2021

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.

Wondrous curves: Wahroonga House

Wondrous curves: Wahroonga House

Posted: 20 Sep 2021

An earthy colour palette brings the surrounding bushland inside this laidback yet sophisticated refuge that playfully acknowledges its mid-century modernist roots.

Material Focus: Cuba Precinct

Material Focus: Cuba Precinct

Posted: 16 Sep 2021

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.

Between a rock and a cliff face

Between a rock and a cliff face

Posted: 15 Sep 2021

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.

Sun seeker: Macdonald Road House

Sun seeker: Macdonald Road House

Posted: 8 Sep 2021

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.

Finding place: Te Āhuru

Finding place: Te Āhuru

Posted: 6 Sep 2021

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.

Viewfinder: Top five with Michelle Weir

Viewfinder: Top five with Michelle Weir

Posted: 1 Sep 2021

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.

Houses Revisited: Valley girls

Houses Revisited: Valley girls

Posted: 27 Aug 2021

From our 2007 archives: With architect John Mills as guide two Wellington clients brave Doubt and Despair to build their House Beautiful.

Houses Revisited: Prop forward

Houses Revisited: Prop forward

Posted: 27 Aug 2021

Revisit a bold and brassy house by Guy Tarrant, first published in 2006, which seems eager to grapple with its suburban Auckland street.

Houses Revisited: Island adventure

Houses Revisited: Island adventure

Posted: 27 Aug 2021

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.

Dark and stormy: Three Stories North

Dark and stormy: Three Stories North

Posted: 25 Aug 2021

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.

A taniwha awakes

A taniwha awakes

Posted: 18 Aug 2021

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.

Behind the Object: The Wanaka tables

Behind the Object: The Wanaka tables

Posted: 13 Aug 2021

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.

A finely crafted bunker: Mt Coot-tha House

A finely crafted bunker: Mt Coot-tha House

Posted: 11 Aug 2021

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.

Free range

Free range

Posted: 4 Aug 2021

Jeremy Smith discovers a small ‘mufti day’ in the search for housing when he visits a reworked flour mill by Malcolm Walker Architects.

An abstracted terrace: Fitzroy North House 02

An abstracted terrace: Fitzroy North House 02

Posted: 30 Jul 2021

This curious family home, appearing as an abstracted worker’s cottage from the street, conceals an open design shaped by two verdant garden courtyards.

Following the whenua

Following the whenua

Posted: 26 Jul 2021

Mark Southcombe visits Parsonson Architects’ Long House in Wellington’s Churton Park and finds a home designed with both landform and landscape in mind.

Houses Revisited: Living inside out

Houses Revisited: Living inside out

Posted: 23 Jul 2021

By the wild entrance of Wellington harbour Studio Pacific Architecture experiment with climate control in this 2007 house from the archives.

Houses Revisited: Villa redux

Houses Revisited: Villa redux

Posted: 23 Jul 2021

In this home that was originally published in 2007, Palladio, not Ponsonby, is the precedent for a Devonport house by Jane Priest and Vanillaspace.

Houses Revisited: Lakeside connections

Houses Revisited: Lakeside connections

Posted: 23 Jul 2021

Architecture Page Henderson’s Taupo holiday house, first published in 2007, is a sensitive response to site and client requirements.

Behind the Object: Te Aka Mātauranga

Behind the Object: Te Aka Mātauranga

Posted: 22 Jul 2021

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.

Viewfinder: Top five with Jackie Meiring

Viewfinder: Top five with Jackie Meiring

Posted: 21 Jul 2021

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.

Walking backwards

Walking backwards

Posted: 19 Jul 2021

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.

The Sang House: Retracing an icon

The Sang House: Retracing an icon

Posted: 14 Jul 2021

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.

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