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A long-established advertising agency has taken a fresh new approach to collaborative space.
We visit a Herne Bay home with a honeyed glow and a sweet-sounding past, transformed by Verso Architecture + Interiors.
Most childcare centres feature a rainbow of clashing colours and zany patterns, with a backdrop of practical necessities. Not in this one.
Sculpted around the simple daily enactment of the owners’ newly shared life, this addition represents a binding together of stories, memories and moments.
Ian Lochhead reflects on what the reinstatement of this building means to the local community and its sense of connectedness to place.
Landscape Architecture Aotearoa explores how a redevelopment of Hamilton’s riverfront has created an activated public space.
Well versed in designing for the tropical Queensland climate, the Gabriel and Elizabeth Poole and Tim Bennetton have collaborated to deliver an exuberant South Stradbroke Island holiday home for the owner and her four grandsons.
This former factory has been transformed into a spacious family home, a sports car repository and an equine genetics laboratory.
This development, located half an hour north of Auckland, demonstrates how master planning can create successful ecological outcomes.
This year’s Australian House of the Year is also a farm building, greenhouse and cooking school, all within a 110-metre-long prefabricated shed.
Abigail Hurst explores Takapō’s brightest star, a new project by Sheppard & Rout Architects.
Dreams of living in a tree house culminated in this Costa Rican vacation spot, dripping in verdure.
A factory unlike any we have seen before, Pic’s Peanut Butter World is equal parts manufacturing plant and tourist attraction.
Taking a neighbourly approach to design and construction, this addition to a historic attached cottage preserves a connection to a coast-dwelling past.
Mark Southcombe explores the architectural legacy of Whanganui Collegiate School and its new additions by RTA Studio.
Set within a brazen, nonconformist building of 11 bespoke apartments, this abode fittingly offers an edge to Melbourne’s bohemian suburb.
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.
The newly renovated Holiday Inn near Auckland Airport presents a bright and welcoming front with a contemporary, Pacific-inspired aesthetic.
This wonderland of bold moves and blue-chip artworks is a paean to taste on the Portuguese coast.
This humble working man’s cottage has been transformed into a beautiful light-filled home, with an impossibly high ceiling.
In her project Not a Monastery: Transposing and interpreting the ancient typology, student Emily Pearce weaves together old and new to create an artisan school.
The brief for this Sydney apartment called for a concrete box… the result, surprisingly, is a warm and inviting gem.
This small space is home to an emergency doctor, Albóndiga (Meatball, his pet bulldog) and a large collection of pot plants.
With a clear mandate to be elegant, yet passive, Queenstown’s Team Green Architects has delivered a home that is powerful in many respects.
Mark Simpson, joint creative director at Melbourne’s DesignOffice, talks about the firm’s new Auckland fit-out for retailer Superette.
This cleverly conceived villa addition offers a strong connection to its outdoor living space, stepping across the site and framing the back garden.
MArch student Emily Newmarch’s project responds to a world where the traditional hearth has become a subjective accessory and achieving a warmth is focused on machines.