3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (672+ words) Aotearoa’s dynamic landscape is dotted with rural settlements — microcosms of raw natural beauty that the country is known for. Mangakuri in Hawke’s Bay is one of those places. While its remoteness creates construction challenges, its rugged coastline and breathtaking mountain…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (629+ words) Rather than treating the home as a singular form, the practice has designed a series of modest gabled structures arranged around sheltered outdoor spaces, creating a home that is as much about life outdoors as within. Set on a secluded…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (677+ words) Kuroi Ma translates to ‘black void’, an apt name for a home that exists as a paradox: recessive in tone yet vivid in its context, it is the only one of its kind within a dense and growing subdivision, where…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (178+ words) In the Coromandel, a home with a humble profile and a thoughtful design makes the most of a stunning location. Built with awe-inspiring attention to detail, this Arrowtown home is a fresh interpretation of a familiar Otago rural vernacular. This…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (359+ words) Pac Studio has long demonstrated a distinctive command of colour, deploying it with confidence and nuance in ways that feel both unexpected and entirely at home. That approach has been recognised at the 2026 Dulux Colour Awards, with the studio’s Auckland…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (673+ words) On a rugged stretch of State Highway 1, part-way between Kaikōura and Blenheim, where steep hills fall towards the Pacific and weather shapes the land with force, Three Sixty Architecture has devised something entirely fitting — and particularly appealing. This home had…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (274+ words) The kitchen, side lounge, and bar were conceived as a single, interconnected zone, the bar mirroring the kitchen cabinetry so that both read as one continuous composition of material and form. A feast of curvature and softness, this project is…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (254+ words) Sited between three significant heritage buildings in Parnell, One Saint Stephens earns its place in this category through both the quality of the interior life it creates and the statement it makes from the street. This is residential interior design…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (1244+ words) Georgia Duncan’s trajectory has taken her from graduate to principal and, most recently, shareholder at Edwards White Architects, the Hamilton-based practice she joined straight out of university. Georgia Duncan’s impressive ascent is as unusual for its speed as it is…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (443+ words) There is a particular honesty to buildings that borrow from labour. The homestead at Mt Cardrona Station by Leuschke Group Architects takes its cues from the wool-sheds and mining structures of the Cardrona Valley, but the charm and uniqueness of…...