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Houses Revisited: Core values

Houses Revisited: Core values

Projects | This project is really one big space; the tight and compact nature of the house, along with the strong and steady concentration on the focal space, is what makes it a success.  / Click here to see more Houses ...
Reading the raupō

Reading the raupō

People | Reader, I’ve been thinking a lot about raupō houses lately. Specifically, hybrid architecture — the kind that used raupō as both structure and signal. So, yes… raupō houses, I guess. Not in a nostalgi...
Houses Revisited: Island adventure

Houses Revisited: Island adventure

Projects | And sign up to our email newsletters to receive Houses Revisited straight to your inbox. Note: These are stories from our archives and, since the time of writing, some details may have changed including...
Houses Revisited: Rationalist house

Houses Revisited: Rationalist house

Projects | And sign up to our email newsletters to receive Houses Revisited straight to your inbox. Note: These are stories from our archives and, since the time of writing, some details may have changed including...
Houses Revisited: Beyond fashion

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: Country crate

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: Tough love

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

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

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: High society

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: Housing acts

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...
Architecture Now 7 by Philip Jodidio

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...
TVNZ Headquarters re-opens

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...
Houses Revisited: Happy camping

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...
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