Tag: Houses revisited | Architecture Now

Houses Revisited: Smart fit

Projects | 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

Projects | 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: Model work

Projects | Revisit this home from our 2007 archives: Padma Naidu’s own house on a small Auckland section offers a lesson in modern suburban design.

Houses Revisited: Enclosure movement

Projects | 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

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

Houses Revisited: Ode to Auckland

Projects | 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: Big little

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

Houses Revisited: Higher plane

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

Houses Revisited: A beachy bach

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

Houses Revisited: Light heavyweight

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

Houses Revisited: Float on

Projects | In another 2007 project from Gerald Parsonson, an assured house at Peka Peka rides the dunes rolling inland from an untamed coast.

Houses Revisited: Settler chic

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

Houses Revisited: Hard case

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

Houses Revisited: Buffed up

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

Houses Revisited: Layered approach

Projects | North of Auckland, Herbst Architects again produce a sophisticated response to climate and context in this house that we revisit from 2008.

Houses Revisited: Suburban values

Projects | 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: The shed as read

Projects | Revisit this 2008 project where Antanas Procuta Architects (now PAUA) has some fun with an archetype in a Waikato farm manager’s house.

Houses Revisited: Crafty rooster

Projects | From the archives: Visit a home on a steep Wellington site, in an old part of town, where Parsonson Architects have designed a clever townhouse.

Houses Revisited: Like different, man

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

Houses Revisited: Advanced pose

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