Tag: Residential | Architecture Now

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.

Houses Revisited: Adventure in toytown

Projects | In this Wellington home, first published in 2009, Uche Isichei has designed an unconventional house for a once-sleepy suburb.

Houses Revisited: Housing acts

Projects | Paul Barry’s ‘Three-part house’ makes the most of a tight and tiny Wellington site in this project that was first published in 2009.

Houses Revisited: Core values

Projects | From the 2009 archives: The late Guy Sellars solved the planning puzzle in a two-faced Christchurch house for his son’s family.

With the grain: Tairua Insitu House

Projects | The Coromandel’s gritty persona marries smooth-cut family living in this neutral-hued home, designed by Neu Architecture.

Layering spaces, light and modernity

Projects | By taking a fresh approach in this Remuera bungalow, Respond Architects has created a home full of light, effortless flow and space for its owners.

Draft of shadows

Projects | Art, greenery, sunshine and a touch of vintage blend effortlessly in this brutalist house for the co-founder of Mexico’s hippest hotel chain.

Sun catcher: Empire House

Projects | Two subtle yet sophisticated pavilions honour the interwar character of this home while connecting it with the outdoors.

Quality over ostentation: Balmoral House

Projects | A series of stacked interconnected volumes that carefully negotiate a tricky wedge-shaped site provided the solution for a client.

Volume and drama: White House

Projects | This crisp addition to an Australian Federation home exuberantly manoeuvres light, space and monochrome materials to masterfully meet the brief.

Fit for pawns and queens: Latimer Terraces

Projects | Abigail Hurst explores this Warren and Mahoney project, the first of many chessboard moves to establish diverse central-city living in Christchurch.

Poured pleats

Projects | Jack McKinney Architects has transformed a Ponsonby streetscape with a dramatic gesture that is equal parts theatre and sculpture.