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Design: Herbst Architects. New photos of this building designed for occupation in the summer months. Boundaries between the built form and nature are challenged to heighten the experience of immersion in nature. The architects reference the nostalgia surrounding the “Kiwi bach”.
Design: The Buchan Group, Architects. Premium wine brand showcase – polished concrete counters coloured to mirror Hurunui stone from the local riverbed, while the counter dips to follow the alignment of the gully across which the vineyard spans.
Design: The Buchan Group, Architects. The first stage of the NZ$130 million Five Mile Retail Centre development at the gateway to Queenstown has begun welcoming residents and visitors alike, converting the site from an abandoned eyesore into an enticing state-of-the-art shopping precinct.
Design: The Buchan Group, Architects. The former Hydro Grand Hotel, now dilapidated, in the heart of Timaru will make way for a $42 million hotel, apartment and corporate office complex with three separate buildings.
Mott MacDonald Architects is designing 85 Customs Street, a new mixed-use development in Auckland, New Zealand on behalf of Shundi Customs Limited. Once complete, the 52-storey residential tower will become the city’s tallest, adding a new dynamic to the skyline.
Design: The Buchan Group. Global architectural, interior and graphic design firm The Buchan Group has relocated its new Christchurch office to 144 Kilmore Street, a building it also designed.
Design: Irving Smith Architects. The government remediation of New Zealand’s “most contaminated site”, a former chemical fertilizer plant in the small rural town of Mapua, left the site bare, emotionally scarred, unused and fiscally under resourced.
Design: Irving Smith Architects. Following recent development of new commercial outlets away from Whakatane’s town centre, Whakatane Library & Exhibition Centre relocates public facilities back into the centre to revitalize an area of big box retail and carparking left devoid of urban life.
Design: Irving Smith Architects. This innovative timber building provides an uplifting environment for learning; an economic community asset and a sustainable solution to the provision of tertiary education facilities.
Design: Irving Smith Architects. An architect’s house is a thing to play with, a bit like life. Perhaps even more so when its an architecture inherited almost unchanged from Alec Bowman’s original 1960 design for a retired couple, and now in dire need of simple things like a kitchen, spaces to fit a family, and a connection to the garden.
Design: Irving Smith Architects. A house after the quakes. One creative home comes down, another goes up, the new silhouetting the old, reminding, resettling.
A NZ house design by Irving Smith Architects in a frontier environment and set to encourage freedom as a super-insulated and permanent tent within an inland southern New Zealand basin: Alexandra Tent House.
Design: tse:wallace architects ltd. This new house located adjacent to a conservation area of well-established native bush, endeavours to make the most of its dramatic siting.
The New Central Library Christchurch building, New Zealand Architecture, Images The New Central Library Christchurch NZ South Island Building design by Architectus and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects post updated 9 September 2025 Design: Architectus and Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Location: Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand The New Central Library (NCL) is one of the anchor … Read more