Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

Levity and gravity

Projects | John Walsh explores Omata Beach House, winner of the 2023 Sir Ian Athfield Award for Housing, by Herbst Architects and finds a pavilion on a plinth that seems as though it’s grown out of the land.

East and West meet in this Californian classic

Projects | In the Big Cottage, Bob Burnett Architecture merges a classic Californian Bungalow style with a Japanese design ethos in this Christchurch home.

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.

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.

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.

Master Builders House of the Year 2022 Awards

Awards | Celebrating building excellence in New Zealand since 1991, the Registered Master Builders House of the Year celebrates the best homes, renovations and builders across Aotearoa.

Duplex with a difference

Projects | Guy Marriage is impressed by the joy of Patchwork Architecture’s three-dimensional, Escher-like cliff-side edifice, Party Wall, in Wellington’s Kelburn.

Marking a milestone: The View House

Projects | A dream manifested into reality at an unlikely time for this carpenter-come registered architect as he completed his first house amidst Covid lockdowns and delays.

Densification perfection

Projects | This new home built on a rare subdivided section in Auckland’s Mt Albert is a prime example of densification done well.

Shipshape in Rothesay Bay

Projects | A clever floorplan allows for maximum outdoor space while providing sea views and boat storage on a limited site.

Houses Revisited: Rationalist house

Projects | In this large Christchurch house, Wilson and Hill Architects continue their exploration of contemporary Modernism, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Up periscope

Projects | RTA Studio navigates through a minefield of rules and regulations at Torpedo Bay, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Modern manners

Projects | A Remuera house by Godward Guthrie Architecture is respectful but not too formal, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Strait on

Projects | On Wellington’s wild southern shore Rafe Maclean has designed a brave little house for his family, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Retro slick

Projects | Working with design-literate clients, and his builder brother, Michael Melville has fused seventies suburban optimism and contemporary experimentation, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Pastoral idyll

Projects | The art in this Gerald Parsonson house in the Wellington hinterlands is visible on the inside and the out, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Dune days

Projects | At ostentatious Omaha Aimer Naismith Architects have acknowledged the simpler bach tradition with the design of this home, first published in 2006.

Houses Revisited: Twist top

Projects | This 2006 home from Arthouse Architecture sits above a Nelson beach and demonstrates a relaxed form of maritime modernism.

Houses Revisited: Little paua

Projects | Godward Guthrie’s Coromandel bach from our 2006 archives is an exercise in self-containment and self-conscious nostalgia.