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Houses Revisited: Sympathetic intervention

Houses Revisited: Sympathetic intervention

Posted: 27 Mar 2020

We revisit a project from the March 2009 issue of Houses where Michael Fisher takes an Auckland art deco house through the rehab process.

Houses Revisited: Right neighbourly

Houses Revisited: Right neighbourly

Posted: 26 Jun 2020

From the 2008 archives: Ken Crosson has designed a pair of townhouses in St Heliers that reject rampant individualism.

Houses revisited: Kiwi pav

Houses revisited: Kiwi pav

Posted: 26 Jun 2020

Look back at this home on Auckland’s West Coast, where Simon Carnachan works up a modernist recipe for a casual beach house.

Houses Revisited: Dome house

Houses Revisited: Dome house

Posted: 26 Jun 2020

First published in 2008, we review this early Nineties, sustainable home on the Kapiti Coast by iconic modernist architect Fritz Eisenhofer.

Houses Revisited: Rock steady

Houses Revisited: Rock steady

Posted: 24 Jul 2020

In 2008 near Wellington Heads, Novak & Middleton designed a solid house for a very discerning client: a fusion of Swiss client and Kiwi architect.

Houses Revisited: Super tent

Houses Revisited: Super tent

Posted: 24 Jul 2020

First published in 2008, this Tim Dorrington-designed beach house in the Far North is inspired by memories of holidays under canvas.

Houses Revisited: U with view

Houses Revisited: U with view

Posted: 24 Jul 2020

Robin O’Donnell balances prospect and protection on an Auckland clifftop site in this home from the 2008 archives.

Houses Revisited: Together apart

Houses Revisited: Together apart

Posted: 28 Aug 2020

ALIGNwork’s trans-generational beach house, first published in 2008, is a welcome sight at a very mixed development.

Houses Revisited: Easy stretch

Houses Revisited: Easy stretch

Posted: 28 Aug 2020

In this project from the Houses archives, Megan Edwards demonstrates her mastery of the bungalow extension in an older Auckland suburb.

Houses Revisited: The art of graft

Houses Revisited: The art of graft

Posted: 28 Aug 2020

In another project from the archives, a Mt Eden addition where Megan Edwards deftly engineers a twenty-first century lean-to.

Houses Revisited: Le sublime

Houses Revisited: Le sublime

Posted: 25 Sep 2020

Wellington architect Hugh Tennent demonstrates his sensitive craft in the Marlborough Sounds in this home that was first published in 2008.

Houses Revisited: Humanist habitat

Houses Revisited: Humanist habitat

Posted: 25 Sep 2020

A Wakatipu house benefits from Arrowtown architect Max Wild’s local knowledge in this project, which first appeared in Houses magazine in 2008.

Houses Revisited: Fresh start

Houses Revisited: Fresh start

Posted: 23 Oct 2020

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.

Houses Revisited: A second life

Houses Revisited: A second life

Posted: 23 Oct 2020

The original clients get back a Wellington house designed by the late Chris Brooke-White, one of the great characters of the 1970s, in this project feature from 2008.

Houses Revisited: Advanced pose

Houses Revisited: Advanced pose

Posted: 27 Nov 2020

Xsite Architects’ zinc-clad house in a conservative Auckland suburb, first published in March 2008, stretches out to the sun and sea.

Houses Revisited: Like different, man

Houses Revisited: Like different, man

Posted: 27 Nov 2020

Andrew Sexton’s reworked bach on the Wairarapa coast is appropriately resistant to modern pretensions in this project from the 2008 archives.

Houses Revisited: Suburban values

Houses Revisited: Suburban values

Posted: 18 Dec 2020

With this project from 2008, Edwards White Architects creates a relaxed house in a Hamilton subdivision that is a model Kiwi family home.

Houses Revisited: Settler chic

Houses Revisited: Settler chic

Posted: 22 Jan 2021

In pastoral Waikato, RTA Studio employ vernacular forms to create an inland holiday house that was first published in 2007.

Houses Revisited: Hard case

Houses Revisited: Hard case

Posted: 22 Jan 2021

Tough materials and flexible spaces characterise Archimedia’s Hamilton house by the Waikato River, from the Houses magazine 2007 archives.

Houses Revisited: Buffed up

Houses Revisited: Buffed up

Posted: 22 Jan 2021

Strict conditions on a vulnerable coastal site lead Godward Guthrie to develop clever solutions in the design for this house from 2007.

Houses Revisited: Light heavyweight

Houses Revisited: Light heavyweight

Posted: 26 Feb 2021

In Auckland’s most established suburb, Malcolm Walker demonstrates a deft touch with shape and space with this house from 2007.

Houses Revisited: A beachy bach

Houses Revisited: A beachy bach

Posted: 26 Feb 2021

Gerald Parsonson’s holiday house at Paraparaumu, first published in 2007, is a triumph of substance over style.

Houses Revisited: Big little

Houses Revisited: Big little

Posted: 26 Mar 2021

An economy of planning and a luxury of volume characterise this Gerald Parsonson bach at Raumati, first published in 2007.

Houses Revisited: Ode to Auckland

Houses Revisited: Ode to Auckland

Posted: 26 Mar 2021

An enduring design even at the time of publishing in 2007, Jack Manning’s Stanley Point house is testament to a gentler place and time.

Houses Revisited: Higher plane

Houses Revisited: Higher plane

Posted: 26 Mar 2021

From September 2007: On an exposed site with a huge panorama, Strachan Group Architects (SGA) provides shelter and dissolves boundaries.

Houses Revisited: Enclosure movement

Houses Revisited: Enclosure movement

Posted: 23 Apr 2021

First published in September 2007, David Ponting and Richard George opt for a fluid formalism in an old Auckland clerical suburb.

Houses Revisited: Light touch

Houses Revisited: Light touch

Posted: 23 Apr 2021

From the 2007 archives: In a paddock outside Levin, Chris Johns designed a comfortable and disarmingly simple country home.

Houses Revisited: Free spirit

Houses Revisited: Free spirit

Posted: 28 May 2021

Apparently transparent but surprisingly private, in a famous tradition but hardly traditional, this Remuera house from 2007 is cool, calm and clever.

Houses Revisited: Smart fit

Houses Revisited: Smart fit

Posted: 28 May 2021

From our 2007 archives: An Auckland house is tailored to suit a tight suburban site, with a balance of connection and separation.

Houses Revisited: Lineout jumper

Houses Revisited: Lineout jumper

Posted: 28 May 2021

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.

Houses Revisited: Back to black

Houses Revisited: Back to black

Posted: 18 Jun 2021

Look back at this house from our 2007 archives: In Wanganui, Dalgleish Architects look beyond precedent to design a ‘new traditional home’.

Houses Revisited: Family court

Houses Revisited: Family court

Posted: 18 Jun 2021

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.

Houses Revisited: Happy camper

Houses Revisited: Happy camper

Posted: 18 Jun 2021

Faced with a spectacular but challenging East Coast site Nicoll Blackburne Architects took to the tent in this home, first published in 2007.

Houses Revisited: Living inside out

Houses Revisited: Living inside out

Posted: 23 Jul 2021

By the wild entrance of Wellington harbour Studio Pacific Architecture experiment with climate control in this 2007 house from the archives.

Houses Revisited: Villa redux

Houses Revisited: Villa redux

Posted: 23 Jul 2021

In this home that was originally published in 2007, Palladio, not Ponsonby, is the precedent for a Devonport house by Jane Priest and Vanillaspace.

Houses Revisited: Lakeside connections

Houses Revisited: Lakeside connections

Posted: 23 Jul 2021

Architecture Page Henderson’s Taupo holiday house, first published in 2007, is a sensitive response to site and client requirements.

Houses Revisited: Valley girls

Houses Revisited: Valley girls

Posted: 27 Aug 2021

From our 2007 archives: With architect John Mills as guide two Wellington clients brave Doubt and Despair to build their House Beautiful.

Houses Revisited: Island adventure

Houses Revisited: Island adventure

Posted: 27 Aug 2021

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.

Houses Revisited: Tree house

Houses Revisited: Tree house

Posted: 24 Sep 2021

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.

Houses Revisited: Orthopaedic surgery

Houses Revisited: Orthopaedic surgery

Posted: 24 Sep 2021

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’.

Houses Revisited: Full nelson

Houses Revisited: Full nelson

Posted: 24 Sep 2021

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.

Houses Revisited: Twist top

Houses Revisited: Twist top

Posted: 29 Oct 2021

This 2006 home from Arthouse Architecture sits above a Nelson beach and demonstrates a relaxed form of maritime modernism.

Houses Revisited: Little paua

Houses Revisited: Little paua

Posted: 29 Oct 2021

Godward Guthrie’s Coromandel bach from our 2006 archives is an exercise in self-containment and self-conscious nostalgia.

Houses Revisited: Dune days

Houses Revisited: Dune days

Posted: 29 Oct 2021

At ostentatious Omaha Aimer Naismith Architects have acknowledged the simpler bach tradition with the design of this home, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Pastoral idyll

Houses Revisited: Pastoral idyll

Posted: 26 Nov 2021

The art in this Gerald Parsonson house in the Wellington hinterlands is visible on the inside and the out, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Retro slick

Houses Revisited: Retro slick

Posted: 26 Nov 2021

Working with design-literate clients, and his builder brother, Michael Melville has fused seventies suburban optimism and contemporary experimentation, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Strait on

Houses Revisited: Strait on

Posted: 26 Nov 2021

On Wellington’s wild southern shore Rafe Maclean has designed a brave little house for his family, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Up periscope

Houses Revisited: Up periscope

Posted: 16 Dec 2021

RTA Studio navigates through a minefield of rules and regulations at Torpedo Bay, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Modern manners

Houses Revisited: Modern manners

Posted: 16 Dec 2021

A Remuera house by Godward Guthrie Architecture is respectful but not too formal, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Above the shop

Houses Revisited: Above the shop

Posted: 25 Feb 2022

The Architecture Office have brought a little bit of suburbia to a city edge apartment, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Elocution lesson

Houses Revisited: Elocution lesson

Posted: 25 Feb 2022

Lance Herbst’s small apartment building in Parnell is a top-end model of clarity, first published in 2006.

Houses revisited: Grey Lynn garage

Houses revisited: Grey Lynn garage

Mark Smith: Architect

A former inner city mechanic’s workshop is reimagined as a New York-style loft, first published 2015.

Residential buildings
Houses Revisited: Mutual support

Houses Revisited: Mutual support

Posted: 28 Feb 2020

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.

Houses Revisited: Salute to the sun

Houses Revisited: Salute to the sun

Posted: 28 Feb 2020

A Michael Wyatt pavilion executes a graceful pose on its well-favoured Queenstown site in this home from the archives.

Houses Revisited: Core values

Houses Revisited: Core values

Posted: 24 Apr 2020

From the 2009 archives: The late Guy Sellars solved the planning puzzle in a two-faced Christchurch house for his son’s family.

Houses Revisited: Nesting instinct

Houses Revisited: Nesting instinct

Posted: 22 May 2020

From the archives: Form follows climate in this home from Strachan Group Architects near Mangawhai Heads, which looks set to take flight.

Houses Revisited: Still on top

Houses Revisited: Still on top

Posted: 22 May 2020

Look back at a house in wild Wairarapa that reprises the adventure and ambition of Gordon Moller’s early career.

Best of 2018: Top five houses

Best of 2018: Top five houses

Posted: 19 Dec 2018

As the year comes to a close, we revisit some of the best New Zealand houses of the year.

Houses Revisited: Rationalist house

Houses Revisited: Rationalist house

Posted: 16 Dec 2021

In this large Christchurch house, Wilson and Hill Architects continue their exploration of contemporary Modernism, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Beyond fashion

Houses Revisited: Beyond fashion

Posted: 3 May 2019

This house by the late Canterbury architect Peter Beaven is a gradual revelation.

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