Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

To keep you home: Architect’s family residence

Projects | Ancestry, an indie-rock song and an innate desire to keep one’s family safe make this Auckland home unique and truly welcoming.

Parnell renovation: Small and tall

Projects | This humble working man’s cottage has been transformed into a beautiful light-filled home, with an impossibly high ceiling.

Mt Eden addition: Garden room

Projects | This cleverly conceived villa addition offers a strong connection to its outdoor living space, stepping across the site and framing the back garden.

Houses Revisited: In at the deep end

Projects | First published in 2009, in this home on the outskirts of Auckland Tim Dorrington designed a pool house, and just kept going.

Houses Revisited: Arney Road House

Projects | Revisit this home, where Robin O’Donnell Architects demonstrates a command of space and light in Auckland’s Remuera.

Double feature: Naremburn Twin Peaks

Projects | Simple yet impactful alterations and additions to an interwar Sydney bungalow elevate the interiors to bright contemporary living spaces.

Houses Revisited: Down to earth

Projects | Revisit a home in an Auckland inner-city suburb where architect Megan Rule works with the oldest material of all.

Houses Revisited: Keep in shape

Projects | Take a look back at an Andrew Patterson-designed contemporary castle with a twist on the cliffs above Auckland’s west coast.

Holding court: Cloister House

Projects | Informed by Roman courtyard houses, this Perth home artfully sculpts a domestic sanctuary out of concrete, timber and light.

Houses Revisited: No barrier to class

Projects | At the far reaches of the Hauraki Gulf, revisit a home by Herbst Architects – one in their remarkable series of modern baches.

Hot House: Haus Gables

Projects | It is high and low brow, quotes modernism and pop culture, and is functional yet intensely sculptural. Best of all… it is tonnes of fun.

Houses Revisited: Happy camping

Projects | Return to a Copeland Associates home that draws on the tropes of the Kiwi beach settlement for a Coromandel holiday house.

Jewel on the hill: The Knoll

Projects | Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, this home on a hill of Auckland’s North Shore is steeped in family history and luscious detail.

Houses Revisited: Complex solution

Projects | We look back at a bach on Auckland’s West Coast in which Matthew Gribben pursues an unorthodox design solution.

Magic touch: Gold Coast residence

Projects | Concrete and timber join forces in this house to offer a visual and physical experience that is close to architectural magic.

Houses Revisited: Tough love

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

A gentle rhythm: Mount Albert renovation

Projects | The reimagining of this home in Auckland’s Mount Albert champions balance, tactility and the gentle power of detail.

Houses Revisited: Idyll at Sorrento

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

Shack in a tent: Apollo Bay House

Projects | This addition to a Bruny Island bush shack cleverly exaggerates the existing roof form to create volume, drama and dialogue.

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.