Built within a rejuvenated heritage façade of rendered masonry, steel, timber and greenery, the Welcome to the...

AKA: The Natural Stick II House in Tokyo, Inhabited by a Car-Lover. Masaru Unozawa (49 years old, self-employed),...

Sponsored Editorial Box Design & Build This section was typical of its Waiheke Island location. Sliced out...

Environmental efficiencies also came into play, helping to maximise light and to make use of recycled materials.

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

ALBERTO KALACH is an architect working in Mexico City whose practice, Taller de Arquitectura X has created many...

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

This incredible ultra-modern 1100m2 concrete home by José Guedes Cruz, César Marques and Marco Marinho of Guedes...

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...

Many architects and designers take the opportunity of working in their own homes to experiment with untested ideas....

Mason & Wales Architects manipulate scale and mass to disguise the size of this large house that responds to...

Appropriate sustainable design in tune with the local climate.

Luxury is many-layered. First come the life comforts – simple warmth and shelter – but aesthetics can...

The kitchen has long been the central social space in a house, and one that gets the hardest knocks. Extra care...

If kitchens are the central social space, then bathrooms are their antithesis – the most private and singular...

Kitchens are built-in design elements that are at once highly functional and expressive: typically the ‘engine...

Sydney architect Brad Swartz explains how he turned 27 square metres in a Darlinghurst block into a functional...

  Architects generally add colour through materiality: mostly natural colours derived from timber, stone,...

Congratulations to all the Best Design Awards finalists and winners for 2017! Below are the residential winners...

  The ‘do up’ and ‘flick on’ culture that seems to define much of New Zealand and Australian housing...

Converting a heritage kiln near Melbourne into a home has led to some dynamic and unconventional outcomes. Architect...

Architect Andrea Bell and interior designer Karen Ngan Kee discuss how architecture and interior design can work...

Understanding the relationship between space and light is fundamental to designing spaces that are to be lived...

How you finish your home is often what connects the architecture with your personality. Yvette Jay explains how....

Mark S. Graham describes how to open up the busiest room in the house with flexible thinking. Today’s busy lifestyles...

New Zealand lighting luminary Mike Thorburn talks mood and shade. Lighting is more than illumination. It’s an...

Interior designer Yvette Jay discusses the most intimate and personal space in a house. Bathrooms have outgrown...

New Zealand architect Marshall Cook writes about his approach to residential architecture, how site and context...