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Houses Revisited: Rationalist house

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Houses Revisited: Beyond fashion

Projects | To the north west of Christchurch city centre, beyond Hagley Park and across the Avon River, lies the suburb of Fendalton, its flat expanse punctuated with mature deciduous trees, its street pattern c...

Houses Revisited: Living in the view

Projects | Here is a house that sits soundly within its landscape and enables an uncomplicated appreciation of its site. Not that that is unusual for New Zealand architecture. In architectural publications you w...

Houses Revisited: Country crate

Projects | Country living, and the generous proportions of a rural lifestyle block, rather than a bach at the beach, called to the owners of this weekend retreat on the outskirts of Greytown in the Wairarapa. Wi...

Houses Revisited: A place in the sun

Projects | It has become the quintessential urban dream: buy a lifestyle block within commuting distance of a city and hold down a regular job while embracing the best of country living. But for some who attempt...

Houses Revisited: Tough love

Projects | You can’t beat Wellington on a good day, or so the song goes. On the other 364 days of any year, it can be a place of extremes. This is no better experienced than at the extremities – the edges and ri...

Houses Revisited: Complex solution

Projects | Unlike most of the houses that sit directly across the road from Piha’s beach, which tend to sit low and cower into the steep cliffs behind them, the beach house designed by Matthew Gribben of Sydney-...

Houses Revisited: Keep in shape

Projects | What could be a more un-New Zealand architectural type than a castle? We don’t have castles here. Our architectural canon, fortress or otherwise, is based on timber – sticks, not stones. Yet, while th...

Houses Revisited: In at the deep end

Projects | This is the story of an architectural project that growed like Topsy. When Auckland architect Tim Dorrington was first consulted by clients in Whitford, he was asked to design a new swimming pool and ...

Houses Revisited: Simply Sumner

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Houses Revisited: Material boys

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Houses Revisited: Return of the native

Projects | Waimarama is a small Hawkes Bay settlement that seems to have slipped down the coast from somewhere less comfortable. Northern Coromandel, perhaps, where the communards once roamed. The seaside villag...

Houses Revisited: High society

Projects | Architect Marshall Cook estimates that the structure supporting this Auckland penthouse of his design dates back to around 1906. Casual research shows that this figure agrees with the establishment of...

Houses Revisited: Adventure in toytown

Projects | Seatoun, located on the far side of the Miramar peninsula, just inside Wellington Heads, spent a pleasantly somnolent twentieth century. The seaside suburb gently evolved into a stable middle-class co...

Houses Revisited: Housing acts

Projects | Wellington’s topography presents plenty of challenges to the Capital’s architects, but it offers opportunities, too. The city’s hillsides have always yielded little plots which design skill and imagin...

Houses revisited: Mission statement

Projects | Mission Bay is a salubrious suburb: sunny, affluent and generally thronging with an invading horde of inline skaters as soon as the climate becomes remotely temperate. It’s a destination suburb for so...

TVNZ Headquarters re-opens

News | Architectural firm Warren and Mahoney was responsible for the redesign of TVNZ's interior, revisiting a space the firm originally designed some 26 years ago. / The original building was, while innova...

Inaugural Hawkes Bay architecture lecture series

News | Hawkes Bay-based Urban Futures Research Lab, in conjunction with Resene, features a series of free talks by luminaries of the architecture and design world as they converge in Hawkes Bay to present on...

Future of textiles: Report 2 from Heimtextil

News | Day 2 starts with researching new wallpaper substrates and printing techniques for our forthcoming Catherine Martin for Mokum collection. I begin the day meeting with our existing United Kingdom print...

Architecture Now 7 by Philip Jodidio

Review | Hats off to Taschen’s glossy reference series, Architecture Now, which is now on its eighth issue – a publishing feat in itself. While this seventh edition came out in 2010 and is not the latest books...

Those committed to building can build anything

Practice | My previous columns were like reflecting on a 3D family album: I looked back at sepia-toned memories and revisited them as if they were architectural models. I walked about them, looking at the housing ...

Before there was dank, there was Frank

People | The last column I wrote made a case that the isms of Eurocentric legacy architecture were a bit of a plague for the building practices of indigenous people. Further, that one of the losses accounts fo...

Houses Revisited: Happy camping

Projects | Camping in New Zealand is a pastime about which it is easy to get nostalgic. One remembers the sunshine, the relaxation and freedom offered by camping and readily forgets the times when rain caused th...

Summer reading: books from Interior

Review | / Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-90 Edited by Glenn Adamson and Jane Pavitt (V&A 2011; $89.99rrp; 320 pp) Review by Michael Barrett / If this was a postmodern sentence, it would just pro...

Camp Glenorchy: Net Zero accommodation

Projects | Camp Glenorchy, at the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park, must be New Zealand’s most sustainably designed and operated visitor accommodation project. It is the first in the world built to meet L...

Selina Foote

People | Houses: Your latest exhibition, ray, is an abstracted interpretation of historic portrait paintings; can you describe the process from inspiration to finished artwork? / Selina Foote: Each painting be...

Interior Awards Q&A: Carolina Izzo

People | Federico Monsalve: Craftsmanship… what does it mean to you? / Carolina Izzo: Craftsmanship is knowing how to treat or create something that, in your hands, can get a life of its own again or endure a...

Interior Awards Q&A: Rawstorne studio

People | Federico Monsalve: In many ways it is an unusual project for Interior Awards. What made you want to enter? / Sarah Johnson: We don’t work in traditional interior design but a lot of our projects are ‘...

Obituary: Ian Dickson

People | Among his favourite projects — ones he talked about at home — were the refurbishment of the Greta Point Tavern (1978–1981; revisited in 1987) and its subsequent relocation in 2002–2003, as well as the t...

Houses Revisited: In Parsonson country

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