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Take a first look at the newly-opened Saxon + Parole – the equestrian-themed American restaurant in Auckland’s Commercial Bay.
The telco’s new Christchurch headquarters by Sheppard & Rout Architects mimics and reflects its context and industry with its decorative and functional glass façade.
Linehouse – co-founded by New Zealander – proves hospitality spaces can have all the luxury of fine dining coupled with a dynamic food offering.
The firm’s Kathleen Kinney and Cathy Challinor discuss a Gisborne monument that has been reimagined to honour the first explorers to arrive in Aotearoa.
An angular concrete form is an architectural riff on the rocky crags and crevices that characterize the steep topography of this harbourside suburb.
Zespri’s new headquarters by Warren and Mahoney intertwines the language of the orchard with that of the corporate workplace.
ALIGNwork’s trans-generational beach house, first published in 2008, is a welcome sight at a very mixed development.
In this project from the Houses archives, Megan Edwards demonstrates her mastery of the bungalow extension in an older Auckland suburb.
In another project from the archives, a Mt Eden addition where Megan Edwards deftly engineers a twenty-first century lean-to.
First Light Studio has created a secondary dwelling in Wellington’s Petone that proves that considered design comes in all shapes and sizes.
Isthmus principal Nick Kapica explains the design for these international-award-winning installations in Auckland’s Hobsonville Point.
Christchurch-based architecture and nature photographer Dennis Radermacher discusses his favourite images and techniques for capturing a project.
Defined by its rectilinear parasol of timber batten, this house prioritizes clarity over pragmatism, geometric consistency over lavishness and poetry over function.
Jeremy Smith considers the compelling proposition of re-use in this poetic preservation of a South Island cabin by Anna-Marie Chin Architects.
B405, the Jasmax-designed UoA Faculty of Engineering mothership, is a building of two halves. Chris Barton comes to terms with it: inside and out.
Edged by an established garden and crowned by an undulating concrete roof-form, this home for collectors is a carefully cultivated expression in concrete and glass.
This award-winning Waiheke home by JDA Studio Architects offers a young family privacy, expansive views and a sophisticated see-through pavilion.
In 2008 near Wellington Heads, Novak & Middleton designed a solid house for a very discerning client: a fusion of Swiss client and Kiwi architect.
First published in 2008, this Tim Dorrington-designed beach house in the Far North is inspired by memories of holidays under canvas.
Robin O’Donnell balances prospect and protection on an Auckland clifftop site in this home from the 2008 archives.
Wellington-based architectural photographer Andy Spain shares his top five houses to shoot and revels in some favourite work stories.
Melanie McDaid explores the new Novotel Christchurch Airport, designed by Warren and Mahoney, which takes its cues from its geographic context.
A monolithic home confidently emerges from the landscape, capturing distant views and forging a connection to the soundscape of its surrounds.
Due to COVID-19, no site visits were allowed at this innovative retirement living facility at the time of writing. But Chris Barton perseveres and is captivated by the space.
Overlooking a sacred pā site, this Dunedin home responds to its sweeping views and the needs of a growing family with considered planning and humble forms.
Taking a restorative approach to the renovation of a sandstone cottage, Benn and Penna has composed contemporary materials to pay homage to the original historic home.
Jasmax’s new Western Springs College and Ngā Puna o Waiōrea Campus compiles spatially exciting buildings at a dramatic scale, but where all the ‘stuff’ has gone?
Architecturepublic has recently unveiled a Remuera home with significant sculptural forms that respond to height-to-boundary restrictions.
From the 2008 archives: Ken Crosson has designed a pair of townhouses in St Heliers that reject rampant individualism.
Look back at this home on Auckland’s West Coast, where Simon Carnachan works up a modernist recipe for a casual beach house.