When asked to design a new store for Deadly Ponies in Auckland’s Newmarket, Katie Lockhart sought to reflect and build upon the leather accessory brand’s existing design language.
Boat Sheds sees Strachan Group Architects and Rachel Rush combine rhythm and repetition to reflect the owners and their passionate connection to beach and boat culture.
The Side Car sees Spacecraft Architects draw from the surrounding environmental and architectural context, proposing a fitting sibling to the dramatically bold form that sits so starkly.
Cotter Avenue House sees Team Green Architects propose a modest and protective home, drawing on a robust simplicity to ground the form amongst the natural.
Heron House sees Pac Studio draw on simplicity and a sense of removal to conjure a home of slightness and necessity, tucked amongst established surrounds.
Designed by Jack McKinney Architects with interiors by Cameron Ireland, Poured Pleats in Auckland is a contemporary extension to an Edwardian villa defined by a pleated concrete roof.
Mt Pisa sees Team Green Architects draw from a rural vernacular and the primary principles of shelter and retreat to propose the unique home of lasting fortitude.
Fale Marker sees RTA Studio combine the simplicity of the removed Bach vernacular together with a refined and formally identifiable structure, in both contrast and harmony to the surrounds.
Passive House sees Team Green Architects focus on a lessened carbon footprint within a contained and challenging framework, as a respectful response to a long lineage.
Hapua Street House sees RTA Studio reference the familiar peaked silhouette in conjuring a bold yet sensitive home, as a crisp addition to the streetscape.
Ross Campion House sees Rafe Maclean Architects focus on using materiality to portray a sense of identity and ownership, as the tightly woven home sits nestled into its suburban site.
Three Peaks House by Michael Cummings Architect consciously respond to the surrounding climate and orientation to ensure effortless and landscape-focused transitions between inside and out.
Sugi House sees Condon Scott Architects craft a comfortable and accommodating series of spaces for a small family – a welcome escape during their visits during the winter season.
Waipapa sees Strachan Group Architects simplify the approach, reducing variations in the materiality as a strengthening of form and blurring boundaries in the process.
Tom’s House sees Anna-Marie Chin Architects draw on geometric cues of the nearby mountain range while forming the slight and robust resolve of the resulting home, part one of a two-part plan.
Matapouri Pavilion sees HB Architecture propose a contemporary and crisply articulated structure to sit sensitively in its unique location, openly embracing the surrounding nature.
Jack McKinney Architects celebrates the existing garden as the musing heart of Under Ivy, protecting and reinstating landscape elements to further add to its abundance and instil a sense of calm.
Herne Bay Road House sees Bureaux draw on the existing character of the home. Within a relatively unchanged exterior, a jewel box of considered detailing awaits.
Fisher & Paykel’s Trade Resources offers industry professionals and detail-focused clients the extensive tools and resources required for design and installation.
Lake Rotoiti sees EMA draw from the surrounds as musing for the resulting home, one that allows a sense of escape, while also idyllically encasing its guests.
Sandringham House sees Bureaux draw on elements of endurance and timelessness to propose a home crafted to live steadily and aptly along with its family, able to grow and adapt with them.
Each Windsor Hardware handle is painstakingly finished by hand in its Invercargill factory in New Zealand. It is this enduring technique that is the secret to the pieces’ timeless appeal.
Paul Barbera puts felines and their opulent lifestyles on display in his new book Where They Purr, exploring the relationships between homes and their cat occupants.
Bowden Houses sees Belinda George Architects in association with Mandeno Design Ltd. combine a textural and natural approach, to imbed a sense of warmth and enclosure.
Hill to Horizon sees Lloyd Hartley Architects and Studio Brick Architects create a grounded and warm internal enclave through a richly considered materiality.
House Under Eaves sees MRTN Architects draw on the natural patina and ageing of timber to enhance the feeling of immersion, while proposing a vernacular of its own.
Redcliffs House sees Lume Design and Site Architecture focus on a relaxed air of casualness and calm to propose the idyllic and dramatically lofted home.
Feather House sees Irving Smith Architects follow the contours of the site, listening and responding to its varied occupant group, to imagine a destination that is crafted from the inside out.
Ao Marama Retreat sees Common Space draw on an unfinished and robust palette to provide shelter and fulfil basic needs, allowing the views over the landscape towards the far-distant city.
Since starting her eponymous Auckland studio 15 years ago, interior designer Katie Lockhart has built a revered reputation by creating artful residential and commercial projects.
A successful home reflects its inhabitants, and facilitates retreat and connection as needed. Studio John Irving Architects and Knight Associates have coaxed a bright contemporary home.
With a curated collection of fireplaces sourced from around the world, Stoke Fireplace Studio’s offering is designed to provide an unparalleled level of choice.
Contributing to a culturally significant building at a sensitive moment for the Christchurch community, Nightworks Studio’s customisation of its Code Pendant System symbolises a new chapter.
Heke Street sees Mitchell Stout Architects reference Japanese sensibilities of space articulation in making the efficient and compact home, supported by its backbone of restraint.
Twin Peaks View sees Mason & Wales Architects conjure a befitting response to the surrounds, where lofted proportions match the openness that abounds through an enduring robustness.
New York Grill sees CTRL Space take an encasing approach and, through a textural journey of materiality and tactility, create an approachable enclosure to dine and escape.
Fisher & Paykel’s Touch Screen Ovens are a range of premium cooking products controlled by a beautifully designed touchscreen interface with intuitive guided cooking capability.
Nestled amid the sand dunes and grasses of Waihi Beach, Bowentown Bach by Edwards White is a dark timber-clad form that gives way to warm, embracing interiors.
Green Walls and Gables by Matter takes cues from the typical contemporary vernacular to create open and shared family zones, emphasised by visual connection.
Hotel Ponsonby sees CTRL Space collaborate with restaurateur Hugo Baird to infuse a sense of community in conjuring the all-inclusive meeting space of the familiar gastropub.
DNA House sees Crosson Architects wrap the remote rural home in a veil that protects and dampens incoming light and winds, while offering a sense of privacy and enclosure in such an exposed siting.
VOLA’s Brushed Gold range captures the essence of luxury through a heightening of the everyday, where the tactile and textural considerations of the finish add an intentional richness.
Birch Park sees Matter Architects propose a robust and textural multi-generational home that embraces its siting and expresses its connection with the natural environment.
Lilian sees CTRL Space utilise the warming and familiar tones or darkened timber and softly rendered plaster walls to create a series of spaces to convene, gather, be fed and tackle a tipple or two.
Fielding House sees Cheshire Architects’ founding principal Pip Cheshire, speaks to the journey from initial sketch to completion, inspirations and responding to site.
Generational House sees Studio2 Architects draw from a grown relationship with the client and expresses their connection to timber in crafted and highly detailed moments throughout.
Designed around the twin ideals of ‘kitchen perfection’ and ‘design freedom’, Fisher & Paykel’s latest Minimal Range of cooking and companion appliances is a marriage of form and function.
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