Approaching the renovation of a classic modernist home, designed by George Reeves in 1963, with a light hand, Homage to Oscar sees Luigi Rosselli Architects celebrate the home’s original bones.
Bismarck House sees Andrew Burges Architects tasked with a less than conventional brief, creating and informal home that embraces its long and linear landscape and site.
Masters of a monochromatic palette, Ritz&Ghougassian deliver refined opulence in their residential project, Highbury Grove. Where rigid structure meets moments of soft vulnerability.
Dismantling and reassembling the traditional components of the family home, Wickham House by MODO Architecture reinterpret internal zoning through a play on volume level changes & spatial separators.
BBW House takes cues in materiality and symmetry from its existing heritage home. Through a proposal of tiered volumes and layering on site, Tecture seamlessly connects the old with the new.
Harnessing simplicity in a sustainable and considered way, Baina is an Antipodean brand of organic towels with a mindful approach to craftsmanship and materiality.
Born of a need for both privacy and openness to the incredible coastal views, Dune House is a play on contrasts. Fearon Hay, in collaboration with Penny Hay Design, conjures an aspirational home.
Rebecca Judd’s Forever Home sees Biasol engage with the idea of a ‘forever home’ to create a contemporary response to the original Spanish Colonial house, and a home that truly befits the family.
Nestled on the dunes of the Coromandel Peninsula overlooking the ocean, Hahei House is a sensitive and considered response to the site’s unparalleled natural beauty.
Headland House by Stevens Lawson Architects takes inspiration from traditional Maori pā forms and the geometry of the landscape that slopes and curves down to the water’s edge.
Reimagining the coastal home that originally occupied the site, Mount Beach House is an expression of the client’s inherent love of surfing and nature.
Smiths Beach Lifesaving sees MRTN Architects reinterpret the well-known vernacular of the coastal watchtower. More than just a place of shelter from the elements, a modest and recessive approach.
Shark Alley sees Fearon Hay perch a structure defined by modernist minimal lines atop a rugged cliff-face as a place of refuge from its harsh coastal conditions.
King sees David Barr Architects utilise a restrained and nuanced palette to create luxurious three-bedroom apartment insertion into existing brick building.
Broadbeach Waters sees BDA Architecture celebrate the building’s core structural materiality as sculpture within space, as a welcoming blurring of the threshold between inside and out unfolds.
The NZ2030 Declaration sees ClareHopkinsClarke and WOWOWA join the business world’s largest group-action, together with more than 500 other B Corporations, committing to net zero carbon emissions.
Perching on a sand dune, Blairgowrie Ocean Beach House by Living Planned Architect embraces its location and, through controlled vantage points feels, as though it is floating above the ocean below.
Drill Hall House by Tobias Partners brings a contextual sensitivity to the adaptation and restoration of 1905 former Army drill hall, expressed through the resulting materiality and spatial planning.
Small of scale and humble of gesture, a pair of timber-clad structures sit at the water’s edge. The Camp sees Fearon Hay pare back the design to its essential elements.
Combining a sense of considered precision with nuanced elements of intrigue and discovery, RaeRae House by Austin Maynard Architects carves its own urban personality.
Embracing the original home’s heritage details and legacy, Anton Kouzmin Architecture brings a refined sensibility to the extension of the existing Federation bungalow, which sees a play on light.
Reconfiguring an existing townhouse by SJB Architects, Blackwattle Bay Townhouse sees Sam Crawford Architects provide additional light, transformative planning and a shift in functionality.
On a sloping site in Auckland, Spaceship IV sees PAC Studio stack a series of dark and brooding volumes so as to hug the hearth and simultaneously hover above the site in a striking assembly of forms.
Ocean Residence by FMD Archiects was designed as a place for entertaining, in which all aspects of the home are intended to act as an extension of the surrounding environment.
Taking inspiration from the original home’s material composition, Henley Clay House by Benn and Penna Architects sees a subtle, yet monolithic extension expand its framework to embrace.
Born from an exploration of the typical New Zealand residential vernacular, Valley House sees an Keshaw McArthur inject an existing Victorian-era villa.
Redefining the luxury hotel experience through an engagement of the senses, triggered by transformative touchpoints, Carr Design’s Jackalope Hotel in Red Hill offers a true escape.
St Vincent’s Place sees Coy Yiontis reconfigure and reinstate their original vision for a previous project, with an impassioned client through a minimalist lens.
Wellington Wall is a study of merging the heritage with the contemporary. Wolveridge Architects’ inquisitive and bold approach unveils a dynamic and finely detailed home.
Through balancing light and dark, Biasol’s Casa Chiaroscuro references an Italian fine art principle to emphasise volume through contrast, creating a calm, contemporary family home.
Fitzroy North House, designed by Rob Kennon Architects, is a refined heritage renovation that optimises an existing single-fronted Victorian terrace with a newfound hint of playfulness.
Swanston Street House sees Robert Simeoni Architects open up an existing Victorian-fronted terrace, subtly adding warmth, adding light and connecting the internal zones.
Referencing elements of traditional Japanese design, SAR Residence sees Mim Design instil the interiors of an existing heritage home with a sense of calm.
Tamarama House sees Sydney architects Durbach Block Jaggers navigate the limiting site constraints through a play on compression and release of a home.
Mermaid Beach Residence sees B.E. Architecture explore the conversation between from our human need for permanence and the unpredictability of the coastal terrain.
As the holiday season begins, Modern Times offers ‘Modern Rituals’, two exhibitions of local art and design that explore the relevance and meaning of ritual in contemporary life.
Inspired by its agricultural surrounds, Leogatha Shed by Wolveridge Architects sits comfortably in its established garden setting in Victoria’s Gippsland.
Described as “a small yet perfectly formed home”, Sandy Bay House by Stevens Lawson Architects sits discreetly among the vegetation on a steep site on Waiheke Island, east of Auckland.
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