Apartments | Architecture Now

Out of the past

Projects | Built as a warehouse in 1926, the PR Colebrook building is being repurposed into Auckland’s ‘newest’ apartment building.

Review | Sophie Dyring visits three exemplar social housing projects in New York City.

Projects | A once-commerical space becomes a cleverly designed, light-filled home in Melbourne, Australia.

Review | A NSW court ruling prompts outcry after it seems to enlarge minimum apartment sizes - but the ruling has been misunderstood.

News | Buyers get a first look at the new $1 million-plus residential display suite near Auckland’s waterfront.

Projects | Referencing the historical use of the site, this 60-unit housing solution presented various construction challenges.

News | An earthquake-damaged apartment building has been reconstructed in Christchurch’s CBD.

Review | Sarosh Mulla suggests that city growth is “not about cramming low-quality, prison-like quarters into every nook and cranny.”

Projects | Jasmax’s Merchant Quarter in New Lynn now features a distinctive 10-storeyed building of low-cost apartments.

Review | Architecture student Sam Aislabie envisages the kind of city we want Auckland to become 50 years from now.

Projects | Isthmus and Studio Pacific combine forces on an upgrade to Wellington’s single-biggest social housing complex.

Projects | Designgroup Stapleton Elliott’s highly considered scheme in Wellington’s Newtown sets a benchmark for social housing in New Zealand.

Projects | The $10 million remediation of a retirement complex in Papamoa is challenging the status quo.

Review | A design that marries classic historical elements with modern ones, whilst retaining the original details.

Projects | These 1970s Wellington council apartments are undergoing a $37 million seismic and functional upgrade.

Spaces | Austrian Architects Hertl Architekten were asked to convert a restaurant into two flats in Kronstorf.