Tag: Residential | Architecture Now

Technology meets craft

People | Sarosh Mulla delves into the tension between technology and craftsmanship in residential architecture to uncover parallels in these seemingly disparate modes of design.

A mindful sanctuary

Projects | This private dwelling by Kanat Studio for a client’s family member with dementia provides a peaceful respite from everyday worries and a tranquil setting for retreat.

Discovering Noel D’Arcy Blackburn

People | Matt Grant visits architect Noel Blackburn’s Hillcrest house in Hamilton and decides to find out more about his work.

Houses revisited: Pipi Beach house

Projects | Outside-the-box thinking has enabled a full-size family house to occupy a modest site. First published in 2014.

Houses revisited: Mountain landing house

Projects | Old and new come together in this extended family holiday home. First published in 2014.

CoHo Hui 3: Collective housing models conference

CoHo Hui 3: Tickets available now

News | Aotearoa’s collective housing conference CoHo Hui is back for 2023! Hosted by The Housing Innovation Society and the AUT School of Future Environments.

Country manor come to town

Projects | Pip Cheshire navigates the striking arrangement of formal and informal space at RTA Studio’s Zed House, located in the affluent suburb of Fendalton, in Ōtautahi Christchurch.

$250 million student village opens: 20 years in the making

News | The opening of the country’s largest student accommodation facility is set to boost the infrastructure of New Zealand’s tertiary education sector.

Where mysteries live

Projects | Jasper van der Lingen is entranced by Warren and Mahoney’s Flock Hill Station in Canterbury — in a dream-like setting of silent mountains, still lakes and framed skies.

Architects in Profile: Megan Edwards

People | A Q&A with Megan Edwards Architects, creators of homes imbued with a strong sense of identity and place.

A win – and, potentially, a loss – for future generations

UDINZ on the Auckland Unitary Plan’s NPS-UD

Review | Opinion piece: Lisa Hinton from UDINZ on the NPS-UD and Enabling Housing Supply legislation’s impacts on Auckland city.

Curved encampment: Bowden House

Projects | Jon Rennie finds delight in architect Belinda George’s elegant response to her client’s childhood memories of campsite living.

Interior Awards 2022, Residential Kitchen Award Winner

Awards | Congratulations to this year’s Residential Kitchen Award winner.

Magical constraint

Projects | Richard Naish contemplates what makes a good house as he visits studio/LWA’s award-winning Our House in Westmere, Auckland.

Sculpting form and material

Projects | Architect Sam Caradus from Crosson Architects explores and contrasts material and form in the Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Local Award-winning Light and Clay.

Projects | On an island escape, in an area populated by white gums and stands of grass trees, this holiday home for a young family serves as an elegant living platform that offers many ways to enjoy its bush setting.

Houses Revisited: Orthopaedic surgery

Projects | From the archives: On a fine old Auckland street, Robin O’Donnell has extended the life of a time-worn Arts and Crafts house with ‘good bones’.

Houses Revisited: Tree house

Projects | Look back at this home from 2006: Xsite Architecture’s wooden ark is tailor made for this slightly alternative, somewhat post-hippy site in one of the farther reaches of West Auckland.

Wondrous curves: Wahroonga House

Projects | An earthy colour palette brings the surrounding bushland inside this laidback yet sophisticated refuge that playfully acknowledges its mid-century modernist roots.

Between a rock and a cliff face

Projects | This year’s Interior Awards finalist ‘House on a Rock’ takes its interior cues from the surrounding landscape, resulting in a warm, handcrafted aesthetic designed with family in mind.