Tag: Residential | Architecture Now

Houses Revisited: U with view

Projects | Robin O’Donnell balances prospect and protection on an Auckland clifftop site in this home from the 2008 archives.

Sounds of nature: House at Otago Bay

Projects | A monolithic home confidently emerges from the landscape, capturing distant views and forging a connection to the soundscape of its surrounds.

Garden party: Metlifecare Gulf Rise

Projects | Due to COVID-19, no site visits were allowed at this innovative retirement living facility at the time of writing. But Chris Barton perseveres and is captivated by the space.

Natural order

Projects | Overlooking a sacred pā site, this Dunedin home responds to its sweeping views and the needs of a growing family with considered planning and humble forms.

A material experience: Balmain Rock

Projects | Taking a restorative approach to the renovation of a sandstone cottage, Benn and Penna has composed contemporary materials to pay homage to the original historic home.

Of law and sculpture

Projects | Architecturepublic has recently unveiled a Remuera home with significant sculptural forms that respond to height-to-boundary restrictions.

Houses Revisited: Right neighbourly

Projects | From the 2008 archives: Ken Crosson has designed a pair of townhouses in St Heliers that reject rampant individualism.

Houses revisited: Kiwi pav

Projects | Look back at this home on Auckland’s West Coast, where Simon Carnachan works up a modernist recipe for a casual beach house.

Houses Revisited: Dome house

Projects | First published in 2008, we review this early Nineties, sustainable home on the Kapiti Coast by iconic modernist architect Fritz Eisenhofer.

Lakeside hideaway

Projects | Sitting quietly above the water and surrounded by newly planted native bush, this home by Kerr Ritchie takes its peaceful place on the shores of Lake Wakatipu.

Maximalist empire

Projects | New York’s Apparatus studio’s co-founders, Gabriel Hendifar and Jeremy Anderson, give us a tour of their maximalist and highly detailed loft apartment.

Hot House: Bridge House

Projects | The house that marketing built: This Los Angeles home, perched above a running stream, was brought to you by… a truckload of brands.

A dignified return: Drill Hall House

Projects | Tobias Partners takes a curatorial hammer to a previously modified drill hall, reinstating the clarity of the original building form and create a reposeful home.

Living with art

Projects | In this apartment, proportions and flow are just as important as are surfaces and detail. Art, however, reigns supreme and in complete unison.

Suburban starship: Studley Park House

Projects | This home by March Studio navigates the terrain of a sloping site while saluting the mid-century architecture that informed its design.

Courtyard dreams

Projects | The front door to this villa in Grey Lynn might look typical, but it’s a portal to another time and place.

Desirable abode

Projects | We caught up with Barry Condon of Condon Scott Architects to talk about the design of this new home in Wanaka.

Extra-ordinary

Projects | With brick as the predominant material, this house is like a contemporary rendition of an historic ruin, affirming the pedestal of brick in architecture.

The ‘C’ word: Escape to Kawau Island

Projects | Photographer Alex Wallace remembers an idyllic weekend at a Kawau Island bach, designed by Auckland-based ICR Studio.

Happy Days domain

Projects | Chris Barton explores DKO Architecture’s mix of terraced and apartment living at a former quarry site in Auckland’s Mount Wellington.