Page Text: 13 Apr 2022, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk
Simon Wilson is an Auckland-based photographer and filmmaker, specialising in architecture and interiors.
Material Focus: 205Q Hive and Lobby
6 Apr 2022
Bespoke commercial interiors specialists Cachet Group has transformed 205Q Hive and Lobby on Auckland’s Queen Street for its clients Roxy-Pacific Holdings, with a vibrant new look featuring a selection of Warwick Fabrics.
Art and the outdoors
30 Mar 2022, Camille Khouri
A curated journey to the shoreline is forged through the renovation of this home in Cass Bay, near Lyttelton.
Wobbly, like the natural earth
30 Mar 2022
Bill McKay explores the Hundertwasser Art Centre in Whangārei by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, in collaboration with HB Architecture, Springmann Architektur and the Hundertwasser Non Profit Foundation.
Houses Revisited: Richmond house
25 Mar 2022, Claire Ellery
A house at the foothills of the Richmond Ranges, designed by architect Guy Herschell, finds inspiration from local forms, first published in 2011.
Houses Revisited: Parau house
25 Mar 2022, Claire Ellery
A series of solid buildings are lightly linked in this west Auckland house, designed by Context Architects, first published in 2011.
Houses Revisited: Wānaka holiday house
25 Mar 2022, Claire Ellery
Sarah Scott Architects have designed a warm and inviting holiday house in Wānaka, that works for every season, first published in 2011.
Making connections
23 Mar 2022, Amanda Harkness
In the new 2degrees headquarters on Auckland’s Fanshawe Street, an Escher-like stair moves up, down and sideways, breaking down the silos and dialling up the fun. Amanda Harkness visits the Warren and Mahoney-designed workplace.
Shipshape in Rothesay Bay
16 Mar 2022, Camille Khouri
A clever floorplan allows for maximum outdoor space while providing sea views and boat storage on a limited site.
Viewfinder: Top Five with John Gollings
9 Mar 2022, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk
Melbourne-based John Gollings is a renowned, prolific photographer who has been photographing buildings for more than 40 years.
3 Mar 2022, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk
University of Auckland Social Sciences Building (B201) awarded highest Green Star rating.
Perched high on the Port Hills
1 Mar 2022, Amanda Harkness
This thoughtful collaboration between an Italian architect and his Cantabrian clients offers both a sense of enclosure and one of release, with a subtle nod to the architect’s Roman roots.
Houses Revisited: Elocution lesson
25 Feb 2022, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk
Lance Herbst’s small apartment building in Parnell is a top-end model of clarity, first published in 2006.
Houses Revisited: Point Chevalier house
25 Feb 2022, Claire Ellery
Jonathan Smith has designed a modest, modern house that makes the most of a challenging section, first published in 2011.
Houses Revisited: Above the shop
25 Feb 2022, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk
The Architecture Office have brought a little bit of suburbia to a city edge apartment, first published in 2006.
A rock emerging from the depths
23 Feb 2022, Jasper van der Lingen
Jasper van der Lingen visits Patterson Associates Architects’ Ravenscar House Museum in Christchurch and finds a reawakening of the city’s past architectural pleasures.
With a little help from my friends
15 Feb 2022, Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith visits Strachan Group Architects’ My Whare, an initiative to help combat youth homelessness in conjunction with Visionwest, and finds these tiny dwellings are filled with aroha.
Ko au te awa, I am the river
10 Feb 2022, Amanda Harkness
In the Aotearoa New Zealand Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, Jasmax, in collaboration with Haumi, has brought the concept of kaitiakitanga to the world.
Jump with a twist
9 Feb 2022, Guy Marriage
Guy Marriage investigates the flamboyant façade and innovative climbing formwork of The Pacifica, Auckland’s towering 56-floor apartment building by Plus Architecture.
Effortless luxury
26 Jan 2022, Camille Khouri
Following the contours of its site in Bendemeer Estate near Queenstown, this visually understated home offers a luxurious residence within.
Watching the collectives
12 Jan 2022, Christopher Kelly
From December 2019 to March 2021, the value of New Zealand’s housing stock increased by $324 billion or about $65K per person in our team of five million.
Bold is Beautiful
22 Dec 2021, Camille Khouri
In the final part of this three-part series, we look at a project that brings together many aspects of environmental design and re-use that come together to create this unique home for its owner.
Houses Revisited: Rationalist house
16 Dec 2021, Ian Lochhead
In this large Christchurch house, Wilson and Hill Architects continue their exploration of contemporary Modernism, first published in 2006.
16 Dec 2021, Bill McKay
RTA Studio navigates through a minefield of rules and regulations at Torpedo Bay, first published in 2006.
16 Dec 2021
A Remuera house by Godward Guthrie Architecture is respectful but not too formal, first published in 2006.
Viewfinder: Top five with Mary Gaudin
15 Dec 2021, Amanda Harkness
New Zealand-born photographer Mary Gaudin, now Montpellier-based, shares with us her top five projects and explains how choosing books in her local library led her to a career in photography.
Material Focus: The Central
8 Dec 2021, ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk
Queenstown’s Central Private Hotel was named as this year’s Grand Prix award-winner at the Dulux Colour Awards. We talk to Undercurrent director Liv Macfarlane about the thinking behind this stand-out design and how the selection of Warwick Fabrics was integral to the final result.
Standing out in the ‘burbs: Arthur’s Point Steel House
1 Dec 2021, Camille Khouri
Located in a recently developed section of Arthur’s Point, a hillside neighbourhood close to Coronet Peak and overlooking the Shotover River, Steel House was designed as a first home for a young family.
Houses Revisited: Retro slick
26 Nov 2021, Guy Marriage
Working with design-literate clients, and his builder brother, Michael Melville has fused seventies suburban optimism and contemporary experimentation, first published in 2006.
Houses Revisited: Strait on
26 Nov 2021, Tommy Honey
On Wellington’s wild southern shore Rafe Maclean has designed a brave little house for his family, first published in 2006.
Houses Revisited: Pastoral idyll
26 Nov 2021, Guy Cleverley
The art in this Gerald Parsonson house in the Wellington hinterlands is visible on the inside and the out, first published in 2006.
19 Nov 2021, Amanda Harkness
Auckland-based architectural photographer Sam Hartnett sees beauty in places where we often don’t expect it.
Creating connection through the senses
10 Nov 2021, Amanda Harkness
An insertion into an industrial section of the city, this new wellness retreat model provides a range of calming spaces for the rejuvenation of both mind and body.
The upside down: Rocketwerkz
3 Nov 2021, Ashley Cusick
The traditional workplace rule book was thrown out for this immersive, gamified experience that Unispace created for this Auckland game studio, a finalist in the 2021 Interior Awards.
Houses Revisited: Twist top
29 Oct 2021
This 2006 home from Arthouse Architecture sits above a Nelson beach and demonstrates a relaxed form of maritime modernism.
29 Oct 2021, John Walsh
Godward Guthrie’s Coromandel bach from our 2006 archives is an exercise in self-containment and self-conscious nostalgia.
Houses Revisited: Dune days
29 Oct 2021
At ostentatious Omaha Aimer Naismith Architects have acknowledged the simpler bach tradition with the design of this home, first published in 2006.
Viewfinder: Top five with David St George
27 Oct 2021, Ashley Cusick
David St George has a special talent of being able to capture not only a space but also the people in it. Here, he recounts his top five favourite projects: exhibitions, studio processes, large-scale infrastructure and more.
Shaping a richer culture
20 Oct 2021, Dorita Hannah
Dorita Hannah explores Diocesan School for Girls’ basilica-like Performing Arts Centre by McIldowie Partners in association with Upton Architects and what it highlights about the value of theatre in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau.
Falling for the bees
18 Oct 2021, Amanda Harkness
With its golden curves and glowing forms, this year’s Interior Award-winning Retail project, the Comvita Wellness Lab, is designed to bring us closer to nature and help us fall in love with bees again.