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From the 2007 archives: In a paddock outside Levin, Chris Johns designed a comfortable and disarmingly simple country home.
Apparently transparent but surprisingly private, in a famous tradition but hardly traditional, this Remuera house from 2007 is cool, calm and clever.
From our 2007 archives: An Auckland house is tailored to suit a tight suburban site, with a balance of connection and separation.
First published in 2007, this house thrusts itself from its site and above its conventional Wanaka neighbours, taking advantage of both lake and valley views.
Look back at this house from our 2007 archives: In Wanganui, Dalgleish Architects look beyond precedent to design a ‘new traditional home’.
A look back at a 2007 design by Eva Nash (neé Segedin): A beachfront house in a lifestyle capital gives the opportunity to demonstrate filial devotion.
Faced with a spectacular but challenging East Coast site Nicoll Blackburne Architects took to the tent in this home, first published in 2007.
By the wild entrance of Wellington harbour Studio Pacific Architecture experiment with climate control in this 2007 house from the archives.
In this home that was originally published in 2007, Palladio, not Ponsonby, is the precedent for a Devonport house by Jane Priest and Vanillaspace.
Architecture Page Henderson’s Taupo holiday house, first published in 2007, is a sensitive response to site and client requirements.
From our 2007 archives: With architect John Mills as guide two Wellington clients brave Doubt and Despair to build their House Beautiful.
Look back at this home from 2006: Xsite Architecture’s wooden ark is tailor made for this slightly alternative, somewhat post-hippy site in one of the farther reaches of West Auckland.
From the archives: On a fine old Auckland street, Robin O’Donnell has extended the life of a time-worn Arts and Crafts house with ‘good bones’.
Sited on a grassy spur above Waimea Inlet this house, first published in 2006, by Jeremy Smith looks east to Tasman Bay and west to the Kahurangi mountains.
This 2006 home from Arthouse Architecture sits above a Nelson beach and demonstrates a relaxed form of maritime modernism.
Godward Guthrie’s Coromandel bach from our 2006 archives is an exercise in self-containment and self-conscious nostalgia.
At ostentatious Omaha Aimer Naismith Architects have acknowledged the simpler bach tradition with the design of this home, first published in 2006.
The art in this Gerald Parsonson house in the Wellington hinterlands is visible on the inside and the out, first published in 2006.
Working with design-literate clients, and his builder brother, Michael Melville has fused seventies suburban optimism and contemporary experimentation, first published in 2006.
On Wellington’s wild southern shore Rafe Maclean has designed a brave little house for his family, first published in 2006.
RTA Studio navigates through a minefield of rules and regulations at Torpedo Bay, first published in 2006.
A Remuera house by Godward Guthrie Architecture is respectful but not too formal, first published in 2006.
The Architecture Office have brought a little bit of suburbia to a city edge apartment, first published in 2006.
Lance Herbst’s small apartment building in Parnell is a top-end model of clarity, first published in 2006.
Revisit a house on the heights above Christchurch suburb Sumner, where Wilson and Hill dug in to deliver a home out of the box.
Revisit Gus Watt’s house for his family at Eastbourne: a hand-crafted expression of his design philosophy.
At the far reaches of the Hauraki Gulf, revisit a home by Herbst Architects – one in their remarkable series of modern baches.
Revisit a home in an Auckland inner-city suburb where architect Megan Rule works with the oldest material of all.
Revisit this home, where Robin O’Donnell Architects demonstrates a command of space and light in Auckland’s Remuera.
We revisit a project from the March 2009 issue of Houses where Michael Fisher takes an Auckland art deco house through the rehab process.
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.
First published in 2008, we review this early Nineties, sustainable home on the Kapiti Coast by iconic modernist architect Fritz Eisenhofer.
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.
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.
Wellington architect Hugh Tennent demonstrates his sensitive craft in the Marlborough Sounds in this home that was first published in 2008.
A Wakatipu house benefits from Arrowtown architect Max Wild’s local knowledge in this project, which first appeared in Houses magazine in 2008.
Fulton Ross Team Architecture’s Rangiora retreat relates to its site and local types, in this home that was featured in Houses magazine in 2008.
From the archives: Visit a home on a steep Wellington site, in an old part of town, where Parsonson Architects have designed a clever townhouse.
Xsite Architects’ zinc-clad house in a conservative Auckland suburb, first published in March 2008, stretches out to the sun and sea.
Andrew Sexton’s reworked bach on the Wairarapa coast is appropriately resistant to modern pretensions in this project from the 2008 archives.
With this project from 2008, Edwards White Architects creates a relaxed house in a Hamilton subdivision that is a model Kiwi family home.
Tough materials and flexible spaces characterise Archimedia’s Hamilton house by the Waikato River, from the Houses magazine 2007 archives.
Strict conditions on a vulnerable coastal site lead Godward Guthrie to develop clever solutions in the design for this house from 2007.
In Auckland’s most established suburb, Malcolm Walker demonstrates a deft touch with shape and space with this house from 2007.
Gerald Parsonson’s holiday house at Paraparaumu, first published in 2007, is a triumph of substance over style.
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.
An architecturally designed modular system makes the ideal inter-generational holiday home, first published in 2015.
A former inner city mechanic’s workshop is reimagined as a New York-style loft, first published 2015.
Take a look back at this home, first published in 2009: a Malcolm Taylor project by the Waikato River that shows architect and builder can get along fine.
A Michael Wyatt pavilion executes a graceful pose on its well-favoured Queenstown site in this home from the archives.
From the 2009 archives: The late Guy Sellars solved the planning puzzle in a two-faced Christchurch house for his son’s family.
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.
As the year comes to a close, we revisit some of the best New Zealand houses of the year.
From 2006: London is not an easy city to leave, but one family decided on a new start, in a new place, in a new house. Now they live on a hill above a Waiheke bay in a contemporary home designed by Geoff Richards.