Tag: Houses revisited | Architecture Now

Houses Revisited: Tough love

Projects | In this home, first published in 2009, Athfield Architects meets the challenge of Cook Strait head on.

Houses Revisited: Idyll at Sorrento

Projects | Revisit Gus Watt’s house for his family at Eastbourne: a hand-crafted expression of his design philosophy.

Houses Revisited: Site shaper

Projects | Revisit a house on the heights above Christchurch suburb Sumner, where Wilson and Hill dug in to deliver a home out of the box.

Houses Revisited: A place in the sun

Projects | We look back at a home in which Paul Leuschke takes a modest budget and creates a farmhouse with room to grow.

Houses Revisited: Country crate

Projects | Richard Middleton takes design inspiration from a Wairarapa site’s former incarnation as an orchard.

Houses Revisited: Living in the view

Projects | A Central Otago house designed by Tim Dagg blurs the lines of the natural and built environment.

Houses Revisited: Beyond fashion

Projects | This house by the late Canterbury architect Peter Beaven is a gradual revelation.

Houses Revisited: Watson-Smith House

Projects | A subdivided section offers the opportunity to illustrate how a house can fit within a snug site.

Houses Revisited: The Hunn House

Projects | A house sitting on the edge of a Wellington cliff provides a challenge for architect Uche Isichei.

Houses Revisited: Examiner Street House

Projects | A house in Nelson models a design solution that accounts for potential increases in site density.

Houses Revisited: Yarborough House

Projects | Look back at a house that provides a good example for urban contemporary living in a historically classified inner-city hood.

Houses Revisited: McFarlane Street House

Projects | Revisit a project where a contemporary addition revitalises the service spaces at the back of an existing Wellington house.

Houses Revisited: Karori House I

Projects | An alteration to a Wellington house responds to the owners’ needs while discreetly experimenting with form and space.

Houses Revisited: Tilt Panel House

Projects | Explore a Nelson house deriving from the investigation into the opportunities afforded by concrete tilt panel construction.

Houses Revisited: Brynderwyn House

Projects | We look back at this 2010 house in Northland. Suggestive of a refined barn, it serves as a place to watch over one’s land.

Houses revisited: Fernhill house

Projects | The angular forms of this large house create a play of light and shadow that mimics the alpine environment in which it sits, first published in 2015.

Houses revisited: Point Chevalier house

Projects | A juxtaposition of materials, coupled with bold lines, produces a visually arresting family home, first published in 2015.

Houses revisited: Cardrona River house

Projects | A years-long love affair with the Otago region has finally borne fruit for an ex-pat family a long way from home, first published in 2015.

Houses revisited: Grey Lynn garage

Projects | A former inner city mechanic’s workshop is reimagined as a New York-style loft, first published 2015.

Houses revisited: Arrowtown house

Projects | Subtle twists – a south-facing triangular site conjures a house of twists and turns. First published in 2013.