Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

Memories, moments and artful planning: Breezeway House

Projects | Designed for a family to share with their friends, this engaging coastal holiday house embodies a collective memory of time spent by the beach.

‘A cascading series of salon spaces’: Garden House

Projects | Soft boundaries create multipurpose spaces that reflect a young couple’s character while generous windows connect interiors with “domesticated wilds” around this home.

French connection: Glassbook House

Projects | Taking cues from Maison de Verre – the “house of glass” – in Paris, the new addition to this home hosts a suite of tranquil living and reading spaces.

Houses Revisited: Fresh start

Projects | Fulton Ross Team Architecture’s Rangiora retreat relates to its site and local types, in this home that was featured in Houses magazine in 2008.

Houses Revisited: Sense of place

Projects | At her own Wanaka house, first published in 2008, Anne Salmond has turned simple sketched boxes into a comfortable home.

Houses Revisited: A second life

Projects | The original clients get back a Wellington house designed by the late Chris Brooke-White, one of the great characters of the 1970s, in this project feature from 2008.

The eagle has landed: Tara Iti house

Projects | Early New Zealand modernism, a respect for the sea views and a touch of golf inspired this pavilion – by architecture firm Box – on the shores of Mangawhai.

Suburban stealth: Fife St House

Projects | This house makes the most of a typical long, narrow suburban site, resulting in a family home whose grandest moments are stealthily concealed from the street.

Boat shed on the bay

Projects | A pared-back, utilitarian bach on Kawau Island by Crosson Architects draws on the quintessential shed typology for its inspiration.

Houses Revisited: Humanist habitat

Projects | A Wakatipu house benefits from Arrowtown architect Max Wild’s local knowledge in this project, which first appeared in Houses magazine in 2008.

Houses Revisited: Le sublime

Projects | Wellington architect Hugh Tennent demonstrates his sensitive craft in the Marlborough Sounds in this home that was first published in 2008.

‘Cinematic sublimity’: Wallis Lake House

Projects | Nestled against a ridgeline and taking in views to the distant peaks of the national park beyond, this new home is born of dedication and collaboration.

‘Strangely beautiful’ bush architecture: Castle Cove House

Projects | An angular concrete form is an architectural riff on the rocky crags and crevices that characterize the steep topography of this harbourside suburb.

Houses Revisited: The art of graft

Projects | In another project from the archives, a Mt Eden addition where Megan Edwards deftly engineers a twenty-first century lean-to.

Houses Revisited: Easy stretch

Projects | In this project from the Houses archives, Megan Edwards demonstrates her mastery of the bungalow extension in an older Auckland suburb.

Houses Revisited: Together apart

Projects | ALIGNwork’s trans-generational beach house, first published in 2008, is a welcome sight at a very mixed development.

Good things in small boxes: The Cube

Projects | First Light Studio has created a secondary dwelling in Wellington’s Petone that proves that considered design comes in all shapes and sizes.

Architectural poetry: House in the Hills

Projects | Defined by its rectilinear parasol of timber batten, this house prioritizes clarity over pragmatism, geometric consistency over lavishness and poetry over function.

Old new and new old: Lake Hayes Cottage

Projects | Jeremy Smith considers the compelling proposition of re-use in this poetic preservation of a South Island cabin by Anna-Marie Chin Architects.

A future ruin in the garden: Almora House

Projects | Edged by an established garden and crowned by an undulating concrete roof-form, this home for collectors is a carefully cultivated expression in concrete and glass.