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Little Concrete Beauty
It’s rare to find a new house built with a focus more on quality of design and build than size. This small... -
Jungle House Beats a New Drum
Built within a rejuvenated heritage façade of rendered masonry, steel, timber and greenery, the Welcome to the... -
Anime Superhero Home
AKA: The Natural Stick II House in Tokyo, Inhabited by a Car-Lover. Masaru Unozawa (49 years old, self-employed),... -
Waiheke Wonderland
Sponsored Editorial Box Design & Build This section was typical of its Waiheke Island location. Sliced out... -
A FINE PAIR
Environmental efficiencies also came into play, helping to maximise light and to make use of recycled materials. -
ARCHITECTURE + Economy
When we look at the cost of a house, we need to think about not just the build cost, but also the running cost... -
Box design & build: a team approach to a tricky site
This was a project where working closely with the owners achieved award-winning results. -
Architecture Trend #1 Tiny Homes
Architects around the world are exploring more efficient, space-saving designs. -
Controversial Amin Taha
His monumental apartment building at 15 Clerkenwell Close, London recently won a RIBA Award and has been widely... -
Patterson Associates Architects: A Holistic Approach
if a building can feel like it naturally ‘belongs’ or fits logically in a place to an environment,... -
Kalach & T.A.X: Respect for the Ecology
ALBERTO KALACH is an architect working in Mexico City whose practice, Taller de Arquitectura X has created many... -
Strachan Group Architects: A Sense of Craft
Recognised by their peers as an innovative and exciting practice, SGA is a group of highly skilled people with... -
Surreal Aquatic Palace
This incredible ultra-modern 1100m2 concrete home by José Guedes Cruz, César Marques and Marco Marinho of Guedes... -
Stevens Lawson: Sculptural Exploration
They try to experiment with each project in terms of the language of the materials and the forms they use. -
Ego-Free – Gianni Botsford Architects
It seemed both entirely beautiful and somehow inhospitable. It was asking to be tamed. -
NZIA Architecture Awards 2018
In the NZIA Architecture Awards announced last night, five striking timber homes that interact closely with their... -
Product X Architecture’s Fireplace Wall Feature
Many architects and designers take the opportunity of working in their own homes to experiment with untested ideas.... -
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Alpine Majesty
Mason & Wales Architects manipulate scale and mass to disguise the size of this large house that responds to... -
Inside Out
The essence of summer luxury is a home that facilitates easy indoor outdoor living by blurring the edges between... -
A house for life
When you want to stay in the same house and suburb for a lifetime, a house needs to be able to adapt with you.... -
British Brilliance
Sometimes as we explore the global arena to source projects that are truly exemplary we discover a practice whose... -
Sub-urban
Robust materials and expressive detailing create a joyous sensory experience on a human scale. -
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What defines luxury
Luxury is many-layered. First come the life comforts – simple warmth and shelter – but aesthetics can... -
Is luxury really someplace else?
Aaron Paterson and Sarosh Mulla, of Paterson Collective Architecture, reflect on a new form of luxury that says... -
Prime colour
New Zealand bush and a panoramic rural view backdrop this striking house by Patterson Associates, setting the stage... -
Urban bliss
Gardens in the sky and dynamic spaces make this urban house in Ho Chi Minh City an exciting, richly layered family... -
Tailored to fit
One of the great successes of the scheme lies in its use of courtyards to marry the house to its site and create... -
Being neighbourly
Architect Dominic Glamuzina discusses the suburban condition and our changing attitudes to boundaries, openness... -
Three suburban house types
As part of our suburban housing series, we look at the single house selecting three examples that do things a... -
A fine piece of furniture
Selecting designer furniture for a home can be daunting with such a wide choice of contemporary designs at all... -
New suburban house types
Housing is a complex topic as there are so many factors that come into play – from sustainability to affordability,... -
Family townhouse
Using a design/build approach based on economies of scale, this architect couple created three townhouse units... -
House with port views
Kerr Ritchie Architects designed this home for a ceramicist and her family on a precipitous Dunedin site. Simple... -
Issue 09 out now – Colour in Architecture
Architects generally add colour through materiality: mostly natural colours derived from timber, stone,... -
Plywood house Waiheke
First appearances are deceiving for this Waiheke Island family home by Bull O’Sullivan Architecture, where sumptuous... -
Best Design Awards: residential winners 2017
Congratulations to all the Best Design Awards finalists and winners for 2017! Below are the residential winners... -
Issue 08 – Fundamentals of Architecture
The ‘do up’ and ‘flick on’ culture that seems to define much of New Zealand and Australian housing... -
A concrete block townhouse graces the city edge
This concrete block townhouse shows how one couple successfully made the move from the suburbs to the city in... -
House cladding: three different characters
There are many variables in choosing a cladding type including budget, function, maintenance, aesthetics,... -
Industrial rural conversion
Converting a heritage kiln near Melbourne into a home has led to some dynamic and unconventional outcomes. Architect... -
Issue 07 – Luxury Redefined
The word ‘luxury’ can have many meanings, depending on how far you want to look back. One of its Latin... -
Adaptable house design
New Zealand Architect Richard George questions conventional planning and how one might make a house more flexible... -
Building sustainably might one day be compulsory
Joseph Hampton of Warren and Mahoney discusses sustainability in house construction, and how to reduce impact on... -
House design explained by Gerald Parsonson
Wellington architect Gerald Parsonson muses on the evolution of New Zealand architectural styles from north to... -
Skylight House by Chenchow Little Architects
Sydney architects Chenchow Little explain how they converted an introverted Victorian terrace in Sydney into a... -
Salisbury Street townhouses by Warren and Mahoney
Multi-unit living is taking its rightful place in the spotlight at last and these three townhouses in Christchurch... -
Issue 06 – The New Suburban Dream
We’re rethinking suburbia, and in our latest issue architects lead the discussion. Photo Sam Hartnett. Our predominant... -
An urban ideal by Panov Scott
Anita Panov and Andrew Scott designed and built their own inner city sanctuary in Sydney, Australia. Rather than...