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Houses Revisited: Free spirit

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Houses Revisited: Smart fit

Houses Revisited: Lineout jumper

Houses Revisited: Back to black

Houses Revisited: Family court

Houses Revisited: Happy camper

Houses Revisited: Living inside out

Houses Revisited: Villa redux

Houses Revisited: Lakeside connections

Houses Revisited: Valley girls

Houses Revisited: Island adventure

Houses Revisited: Tree house

Houses Revisited: Orthopaedic surgery

Houses Revisited: Full nelson

Houses Revisited: Twist top

Houses Revisited: Little paua

Houses Revisited: Dune days

Houses Revisited: Pastoral idyll

Houses Revisited: Retro slick

Houses Revisited: Strait on

Houses Revisited: Up periscope

Houses Revisited: Modern manners

Houses Revisited: Above the shop

Houses Revisited: Elocution lesson

Houses Revisited: Site shaper

Projects | More than any other New Zealand city, Christchurch is a place of vivid contradictions. Its comparative racial homogeneity coexists with an acute awareness of class and caste differences; its apparentl...

Houses Revisited: Idyll at Sorrento

Projects | Christopher Alexander’s The Timeless Way of Building (Oxford University Press, 1979) is devoted to defining the nameless quality that makes things come alive. Alexander writes that this quality is not...

Houses Revisited: No barrier to class

Projects | Great Barrier island in the off-season, and the waves along Medlands Beach break steadily along the shoreline with the sound of tearing paper. The southwest wind is pervasive, rifling through clothing...

Houses Revisited: Down to earth

Projects | In first meeting with Megan Rule, director of South Pacific Architecture and architect of this house, it was surprising to me that this petite, softly-spoken and reserved woman could be the author of ...

Houses Revisited: Arney Road House

Projects | On a prestigious Auckland street, tucked away behind a restored Arts and Crafts mansion, Cape Cod has come to Remuera. Presented with a 750m2 site that was once the tennis court of the Arts and Crafts...

Houses Revisited: Sympathetic intervention

Projects | The drive, these days, from Kingsland to Parnell, is complicated. Sorry to bore all those from outside Auckland with the trivialities of life here, no doubt you have your own problems to be getting on...