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A Passage Of Time

In 1973, Ashley Muir designed a shadowy, almost medieval house for wine pioneers Rolfe and Lois Mills. Four decades on, it’s no less powerful.

A Clever Bach On A Dune, Like A Blade Of Grass In The Sun

Now, this is how a beach house should be: wet dogs and driftwood, wet towels and sand on the floor, discarded boardgames and kids – lots and lots of kids.

Memory, A New House, And A Tennis Court With A View

Designed on the footprint of memories, this Opahi Bay home has history in its DNA.

Thank Doc

Wanaka holds a lot of significance for owners Kathryn and Matt.

Design Focus

Ahead of the annual Dulux® Colour Forecast, Davina Harper reviews her Milan Design Week highlights.

Urban Planning

Lisa Webb creates a home of intrigue and shadow on a tiny scrap of land that was formerly a front lawn.

Model Making

Patterson Architects design a penthouse apartment for a family of six who moved from the suburbs.

Street Wise

Gerald Parsonson crafts two exquisite apartments – one to live in and one to rent – for a retired couple.

Design Notebook

Q&A with associate Luke Douglas of Patterson Associates.

Outer Space

Craig Wilson resolves a steep, narrow site with prefabrication technology and a little humour.

The Plausible Rogue

A new book on John Scottby David Straight celebrates the life and work of one of New Zealand’s most important architects – this extract focuses on the 1970s, in which he built three key houses.

Urban Renewal

With three singular designs at Wynyard Quarter, Patrick Clifford’s team at Architectus shows how good apartment living in Auckland can be.

Ground Work

Richard Naish designs a home near Arrowtown that seems to emerge from the spectacular mountain landscape.

Brick By Brick

A designer creates a fortress-like home in Birkenhead Point, Auckland, for her young family.

Future Proofing

In a case of home as tardis, the past, present and future are all wrapped up in the four walls that Douglas Lloyd Jenkins inhabits in life and work.

'Taihoa' Translates Loosely As 'No Hurry'

A private tramping hut in the Orongorongo Valley embodies the prelapsarian spirit of the people who built it by hand 56 years ago.

This Is A Secluded Spot That Locals Simply Call 'Tara'

Gerrad Hall designs a series of modern farm buildings for collaborative clients in a valley near Mangawhai.