Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

An abstracted terrace: Fitzroy North House 02

Projects | This curious family home, appearing as an abstracted worker’s cottage from the street, conceals an open design shaped by two verdant garden courtyards.

Following the whenua

Projects | Mark Southcombe visits Parsonson Architects’ Long House in Wellington’s Churton Park and finds a home designed with both landform and landscape in mind.

Houses Revisited: Living inside out

Projects | By the wild entrance of Wellington harbour Studio Pacific Architecture experiment with climate control in this 2007 house from the archives.

Houses Revisited: Villa redux

Projects | In this home that was originally published in 2007, Palladio, not Ponsonby, is the precedent for a Devonport house by Jane Priest and Vanillaspace.

Houses Revisited: Lakeside connections

Projects | Architecture Page Henderson’s Taupo holiday house, first published in 2007, is a sensitive response to site and client requirements.

The Sang House: Retracing an icon

Projects | As beloved late Kiwi architect Ron Sang’s own house prepares to go to auction, Maggie Hubert looks back at the home’s architectural evolution from 1973 to now.

A laid-back state of mind: Sandy Point House

Projects | Embedded in a landscape of sand dunes and scrubland, the kitchen and bathing spaces of this coastal home offer refuge and respite to a family during their much-loved beachside vacations.

Cacophony of roofs: Rae Rae House

Projects | Behind the heritage facade of two pre-existing houses, this new home for a family of five strikes a balance between quietude and noise, between fun and functionality.

Marvellous town life: Cloud Cottage

Projects | In the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, a new cottage shirks polite defensiveness for porosity, contributing generously to its streetscape while also enabling quiet repose.

Houses Revisited: Back to black

Projects | Look back at this house from our 2007 archives: In Wanganui, Dalgleish Architects look beyond precedent to design a ‘new traditional home’.

Houses Revisited: Happy camper

Projects | Faced with a spectacular but challenging East Coast site Nicoll Blackburne Architects took to the tent in this home, first published in 2007.

Houses Revisited: Family court

Projects | A look back at a 2007 design by Eva Nash (neé Segedin): A beachfront house in a lifestyle capital gives the opportunity to demonstrate filial devotion.

Bold and rhythmic: CLT House

Projects | Merging tectonics, landscape and family life, this addition to a 1970s family home celebrates the poetry and pragmatism of cross-laminated timber.

Triple threat: Collingwood Street Residence

Projects | This NZIA Local Award-winning home in Nelson by Jerram Tocker Barron Architects explores verticality and perforation on its somewhat constrained suburban site.

A sense of familiarity and nostalgia: Highgate Park House

Projects | An addition to an 1860s cottage, this allows passers-by a glimpse into the history of its suburb while affording those who live there a home that is distinctly their own.

Houses Revisited: Free spirit

Projects | Apparently transparent but surprisingly private, in a famous tradition but hardly traditional, this Remuera house from 2007 is cool, calm and clever.

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.

Suburban escape: Cooks River House

Projects | Immersed in a tumbling hillside garden, this reworking of a classic bungalow eschews suburban tropes in favour of spaces that foster connection with the landscape.

A lyrical family home: Ruckers Hill House

Projects | With civic ambition and a highly personal attention to detail, this ‘house of many rooms’ is a considered new layer in the cultural palimpsest of an inner-city vernacular.