Projects
RSSKiwi architect Daniel Lewis is part of the team that has won the coveted 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize for best new UK building.
Michael O’Sullivan has an unconventional architectural approach as client, architect and builder of his Lyttleton studio.
Smart Design Studio performed “radical and transformative surgery” on a Victorian house in Sydney to create a well-lit home.
Auckland’s version of an iconic, 52-year-old hospitality spot in Wellington pays well-informed homage to its predecessor.
ArchitectureNow looks back over 2014’s top five highest-viewed residential projects.
Patterson Associates’ sculptural art gallery invokes the spirit of renowned Kiwi artist Len Lye and New Plymouth’s culture.
An atmosphere of breezy laid-back luxury imbues this new retail space, befitting its suburban location.
The angular forms of this large house create a play of light and shadow that mimics the alpine environment in which it sits, first published in 2015.
Architect-designed to engage with the expansive gardens and surrounding landscape, this house is a creative labour of love.
This Queenstown home has a seamless connection to its surrounding landscape.
A juxtaposition of materials, coupled with bold lines, produces a visually arresting family home, first published in 2015.
Jasmax has involved the community in the form and functions of its design for a library in Rānui, West Auckland.
Designed in 1969, this house embodies a personalized vision for living in Australia that is still relevant today.
A years-long love affair with the Otago region has finally borne fruit for an ex-pat family a long way from home, first published in 2015.
Moller Architects’ library and community centre features dynamic interior spaces and façade sunscreens.
A multidiscipline sports centre in Ashburton sets the scene for future developments of this nature.
Created to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, the first major battle for Anzac soldiers in WWI.
With spring upon us, Architecture Now showcases some of the most interesting forest-situated homes of the last five years.
Abundant greenery, vibrant colour and organic shapes conjure up a lush oasis in the middle of Auckland’s CBD.
World-first technology has given Young Hunter House in Christchurch the ability to withstand a one-in-2500-year seismic event.
Wilkie + Bruce Architects has spruced up the original soaring timber archways of Knox Church in Christchurch.
This much-lauded house owes as much to creative imagination and serendipitous discovery as it does to the industrial history of its location.
Fluid and lively: Stevens Lawson Architects’ new performing arts centre at Iona College in Havelock North.
The Ideal House is a high-performance home that has been built to showcase the latest in sustainable design and materials.
Concrete walls, taxidermy, collected objects, pops of colour – and, of course, great food – come together.
A vibrant home for the performing and visual arts takes its design cues from the community it serves.
A former inner city mechanic’s workshop is reimagined as a New York-style loft, first published 2015.
This historic, inner-city park returns to its original purpose as a ‘shared urban backyard’ through its vibrant playspace.
Built as a warehouse in 1926, the PR Colebrook building is being repurposed into Auckland’s ‘newest’ apartment building.
Aesthetic and programmatic elements that articulated the client’s values led to the Supreme Award at the 2015 Interior Awards.