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Locals and visitors to Tauranga are making the most of the city’s first summer with a new waterfront feature – the tidal steps.
Maria Hosking from SGA reports on the installation and finishing of the SGA and A+W•NZ Motu Kaikoura Building Workshop.
Guy Marriage reviews Phantom Architecture by Philip Wilkinson.
Airbnb opens the doors to its Parisian headquarters and shows how residential a workplace can really be.
Rochelle Payne writes the fourth update on the progress of The Living House, their rammed earth family home in Beachlands.
Justine Harvey speaks with a few of the Kiwis who attended the World Architecture Festival in Berlin late last year.
Architect Virginia Waller reflects on the relationship between Nepal’s alpine architecture and its stunning natural setting.
A selection of some of the architecture and design books that we’re digging this summer.
Take a look at 10 of the most interesting concert halls from across the globe that have recently come across our desk.
The 15th London Design Festival, held in September 2017, explored exciting design ideas within an expansive feast of events.
Altus looks at Smartfit®, an easy-to-install, ready-to-fit cassette window system.
Designer Dror Benshetrit’s sculptural installation Under/standing was recently unveiled at Brancott Estate in Blenheim.
The NZGBC released an exciting new Green Star rating tool for the existing building market at an event in late November.
Partner content: Samsung’s new television, The Frame, has been designed to blend in with its surroundings, whether on or off.
Pseudo-Georgian buildings are the topic for two new exhibitions in London, discussed here by Colin Martin.
ArchitectureNow editor Amelia Melbourne-Hayward reviews Varidesk’s sit-stand desk, the ProPlus 36.
The NZIA editorial board have picked their top 10 ‘transformative’ projects of the last decade. What is yours?
We’ve handpicked a selection of books on designing for urban living, as well as small house living.
Guy Marriage reviews The Auckland School: 100 Years of Architecture and Planning by Julia Gatley and Lucy Treep.
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s latest project draws attention to borders, xenophobia and the plight of refugees.
Rochelle Payne writes the third update on the progress of The Living House, their rammed earth family home in Beachlands.
Joanna Hurst reports on Auckland’s happenings as part of the Festival of Architecture, with photography by Joe Hockley.
Partner content: Dave Sweatman, associate at Space Studio, reviews the Formica AR Touch.
Justine Harvey talks to a range of New Zealand architects about how they design for smaller inner city homes.
A+W•NZ chair Lynda Simmons reports on the progress of the SGA and A+W•NZ Motu Kaikoura Building Workshop.
We review two recent architecture books: Alexander Rodchenko and The Glass of the Architects.
Houses talks to kitchen designer Davinia Sutton about her use of Fisher & Paykel appliances in an award-winning kitchen.
Colin Martin visited this year’s Serpentine Pavilion in London, designed by Burkina Faso architect Diébédo Francis Kéré.
We take a look at some of the best hotel interiors shortlisted in the Inside festival, running 15–17 November in Berlin.
Colin Martin visited Amanda Levete’s new Exhibition Road Quarter project at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Photographer Andy Spain has been touring New Zealand capturing the largely unseen interiors of quirky, historical spaces.
Colin Martin reports on one of his favourite installations at this year’s La Biennale di Venezia: José Pedro Croft’s sculptures.
A retrospective exhibition on British artist David Hockney’s work, celebrating his 80th birthday, is currently showing in Paris.
We look at some New Zealand companies that are creating innovative and exciting products and why being local is so important.
Rochelle Payne writes the second blog update on the progress of The Living House, which has thus far proved rather arduous.
Federico Monsalve speaks to designers from Architectus about some of the basic interior requirements of legal spaces.
On the 20th anniversary of Auckland’s Sky Tower we revisit a 1997 review by Hamish Keith on the Moller-designed structure.
Camille Khouri reviews three new interesting architecture and design books that have recently hit the shelves.
We take a look at 20 diverse vernacular buildings from across the globe, and ask if this form is relevant in today’s world.
Camille Khouri looks at several memorable, recent legal or law-related workplaces from across New Zealand.