Tag: Houses | Architecture Now

Houses Revisited: Sympathetic intervention

Projects | We revisit a project from the March 2009 issue of Houses where Michael Fisher takes an Auckland art deco house through the rehab process.

Houses Revisited: High society

Projects | From the Houses archives: a penthouse apartment by Cook Sargission & Pirie provides clear evidence of the rise of Freemans Bay.

Houses Revisited: Return of the native

Projects | A Hawke’s Bay home from Herriot Melhuish O’Neill expresses Waimarama’s changed circumstances and its continuity of spirit.

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.

Poured pleats

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

Lessons in scale, proportion and materiality: Albert Villa

Projects | This addition to a historic weatherboard cottage captures vistas from new living spaces arranged around a landscaped courtyard.

Safe harbour: Vikki’s Place

Projects | In responding to the client’s need for a home that caters to a unique family structure, the architects have achieved a fluid and unfussy home.

Landing place: West Meadows house

Projects | With lakeside views and an alpine backdrop, this award-winning South Island house is perfectly positioned to be a home for all seasons.

Elastic geometry: Glebe House

Projects | Crafted with deference to the sculptural potential of architecture, this compact family home with “elastic” geometry is a lesson in tectonic editing.

Garden room: Mount Stuart Greenhouse

Projects | This addition to a grand early-20th-century home reads as a generous garden room that captures the scale and movement of the nearby cypress tree.

Surprising grandeur: Fitzroy Terrace

Projects | New shifts in volume and dramatic apertures to the sky in this Victorian terrace house create the illusion of impossibly spacious proportions.

A calming plan: Courted House

Projects | Embracing the elements inherent in traditional courtyard houses, this home is poised, powerful and surprisingly flexible.

Dramatic contrast: Mayfield Ave Residence

Projects | Wanting a larger outdoor space while also seeking an increase of the internal floor area seems mutually exclusive… or is it?

Black beauty: Kinloch House

Projects | A fresh take on an unconventional building material has resulted in an energy-efficient, low-maintenance house that is turning a lot of heads.

Dichromatic duo: Hello Houses

Projects | Perpetuating the verandah culture that exists in Port Fairy, this pair of houses makes a friendly addition to the neighbourhood.

Uncompromising geometry: Hawthorn House

Projects | Two monolithic pavilions shrouded in concrete result from a skilful balance of architectural expression, material composition and comfort.

Elemental: Jack’s Point house

Projects | This home is at ease within the rugged nature of Queenstown’s landscape.

In Focus: Building smarter (part one)

Practice | We look at what building smarter means for New Zealand and two efficient construction methods as better ways to build in the future.

Encore: Saratoga House

Projects | We visit a Herne Bay home with a honeyed glow and a sweet-sounding past, transformed by Verso Architecture + Interiors.

Coming together: His and Hers House

Projects | Sculpted around the simple daily enactment of the owners’ newly shared life, this addition represents a binding together of stories, memories and moments.