The productivity benefits, savings through minimising rework and ability to self-manage the construction process are the main drivers behind the rapid adoption of the technology.

Its design not only transmits elegance and complexity, but allows you to appreciate the contents inside, placed objects whose voices permeate - telling their story.

The numbers don’t lie – New Zealand architecture has a retention problem when it comes to women.

When we look at the cost of a house, we need to think about not just the build cost, but also the running cost over its lifetime.

2019 winning entries continue the APA’s celebration of the use of architecture as a subject to make art, rather than a photograph as a documentational tool.

While Al-Sabouni’s proposal gained international recognition, the sitting government in Homs rejected her plan for Baba Amr.

In this day and age, the design industry must make an effort to create environments that encourage social interaction, integration, communication and respect.

Architects around the world are exploring more efficient, space-saving designs.

Tūrama, a Rotorua house designed by RTA Studio, shows how connections can be made not with the surrounding environment but to whanau and genealogy.

ALBERTO KALACH is an architect working in Mexico City whose practice, Taller de Arquitectura X has created many exceptional public works.  We showcase here some of the beautiful homes and gardens his team have created, which in all cases, show a deep respect for the environment that is noteworthy. Kalach’s concern about the emerging problems of the vast city is reflected in his work: from the $5,000.00 USD […]

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 brief called for a beach house which takes advantage of the spectacular natural environment surrounding the site – to be used year round.The site is at the base of a steep […]

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, […]

When you want to stay in the same house and suburb for a lifetime, a house needs to be able to adapt with you. The simple elegance of this concrete house conceals a large interior that can be easily reconfigured as needs change. Architect Megan Rule discusses designing a house for life using modern and […]

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 […]

Held by the Auckland Architecture Association (AAA), the Visionary Architecture Awards recognise and promote unrestrained conceptual process and thinking on theoretical or not-yet-realised architectural projects. The awards were held Tuesday 17th November at an event at the Auckland Art Gallery. Architectural industry experts Rewi Thompson, Dean Mackenzie, Lynda Simmons and Chris Darby judged the premier […]