Her interior design philosophy relies on a refined use of materials, sophisticated colour and thought provoking focal points.

Recognised by their peers as an innovative and exciting practice, SGA is a group of highly skilled people with a diverse complementary skills.

This incredible ultra-modern 1100m2 concrete home by José Guedes Cruz, César Marques and Marco Marinho of Guedes Cruz Arquitectos on the Portuguese Riviera is one for your bucket list. The undisputed star of the visually arresting building is the pair of large overlapping swimming pools spread across two levels. Images by Ricardo Oliviera Alves The […]

They try to experiment with each project in terms of the language of the materials and the forms they use.

It seemed both entirely beautiful and somehow inhospitable. It was asking to be tamed.

In the NZIA Architecture Awards announced last night, five striking timber homes that interact closely with their environment were singled out for recognition.  The The Sir Ian Athfield Award for Housing was won by Kawakawa House at Piha, on Auckland’s west coast. It was designed by Herbst Architects. The brief called for a beach house which takes advantage of […]

Materials enhance the way we become connected to a place.

Mason & Wales Architects manipulate scale and mass to disguise the size of this large house that responds to its surroundings in a confident yet recessive manner.  The home was a winner of the NZIA Southern Architecture Awards 2018. Successfully sited, it balances living spaces that open to breath-taking vistas of Lake Wakatipu with private, […]

The essence of summer luxury is a home that facilitates easy indoor outdoor living by blurring the edges between indoors and out. Tenfiftyfive is an Australian practice that creates intelligent, real family homes with elegant spaces that effortlessly merge interiors with garden terraces to enhance the lifestyles of their owners.   Here are three stunning […]

Sometimes as we explore the global arena to source projects that are truly exemplary we discover a practice whose entire body of work takes our breath away. Hyde + Hyde in the UK is one such practice. Set against moody backdrops in dramatic locations, images of the buildings they have designed and created across the […]