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Look back at this home on Auckland’s West Coast, where Simon Carnachan works up a modernist recipe for a casual beach house.
First published in 2008, we review this early Nineties, sustainable home on the Kapiti Coast by iconic modernist architect Fritz Eisenhofer.
ANZ seeks a natural feel and a touch of biophilia in its new Sylvia Park locale, whose fitout was designed by Warren and Mahoney. Melanie McDaid finds out more.
Sitting quietly above the water and surrounded by newly planted native bush, this home by Kerr Ritchie takes its peaceful place on the shores of Lake Wakatipu.
As Wellington City Council votes to keep the Athfield-designed building, we pull the original review of it from Architecture New Zealand‘s Mar/Apr 1992 issue out of the archives.
The people, places and ideas changing our cities one enclave at a time: The Scrap Yard is a small-but-potent commercial development on a back street in Auckland’s Grey Lynn.
New York’s Apparatus studio’s co-founders, Gabriel Hendifar and Jeremy Anderson, give us a tour of their maximalist and highly detailed loft apartment.
Athfield Architects’ Waitohi Johnsonville Library and Community Hub proves to prioritise placemaking and connections to the urban context.
Architectural photographer Jason Mann takes us behind the lens and shows us some of his favourite recent projects: from a beach bach to a hillside home.
Take a deeper look at this winning project from this year’s Visionary Architecture Awards, which tackles the feelings of discombobulation of current climate conversations.
The house that marketing built: This Los Angeles home, perched above a running stream, was brought to you by… a truckload of brands.
This recently opened project at the gym’s Auckland City locale forms part of a ‘permeable campus’, providing a space which is both flexible and designed to increase community engagement.
Tobias Partners takes a curatorial hammer to a previously modified drill hall, reinstating the clarity of the original building form and create a reposeful home.
In this apartment, proportions and flow are just as important as are surfaces and detail. Art, however, reigns supreme and in complete unison.
Jeremy Smith contemplates the intricate origami planes of the Nelson Airport Terminal and ascends to the Cab of its trapezoid Control Tower.
This home by March Studio navigates the terrain of a sloping site while saluting the mid-century architecture that informed its design.
From the archives: Form follows climate in this home from Strachan Group Architects near Mangawhai Heads, which looks set to take flight.
Look back at a house in wild Wairarapa that reprises the adventure and ambition of Gordon Moller’s early career.
First published in 2008, Paul Clarke has designed a view house in Auckland’s eastern suburbs that preserves a little of the past.
The front door to this villa in Grey Lynn might look typical, but it’s a portal to another time and place.
A quaint walkway stepping up from Melbourne’s Yarra River is the sole means of access to this 1930s brick home, where an extension is a treetop sanctuary.
Two students were declared winners of the annual Student Design Awards. Dig deeper into Abdallah Alayan and Jeremy Priest’s award-winning projects.
We caught up with Barry Condon of Condon Scott Architects to talk about the design of this new home in Wanaka.
With brick as the predominant material, this house is like a contemporary rendition of an historic ruin, affirming the pedestal of brick in architecture.
A well-known art deco building in Wellington undergoes an internal metamorphosis in order to house this global skincare brand’s headquarters and retail space.
Photographer Alex Wallace remembers an idyllic weekend at a Kawau Island bach, designed by Auckland-based ICR Studio.
Chris Barton explores DKO Architecture’s mix of terraced and apartment living at a former quarry site in Auckland’s Mount Wellington.
In this Wellington home, first published in 2009, Uche Isichei has designed an unconventional house for a once-sleepy suburb.
Paul Barry’s ‘Three-part house’ makes the most of a tight and tiny Wellington site in this project that was first published in 2009.
From the 2009 archives: The late Guy Sellars solved the planning puzzle in a two-faced Christchurch house for his son’s family.