Marine Parade Auckland Building

Marine Parade House, Auckland

Marine Parade Auckland: built in the 1970s, this cedar-clad home with its multi-gabled roof was typical of an era when split-level design was the height of architectural acuity.

Waiatarua House, Auckland Property

Waiatarua House, Auckland property

Waiatarua House: The brief was for a new house on a challenging, steep site in a bush clad creek gully. One of the design challenges was to insert a bold intervention into a sensitive bush reserve whilst still maintaining a sense of modesty and poetic.

Quay Street Redevelopment, Auckland

Quay Street Redevelopment, Auckland

Quay Street Redevelopment, Auckland Master Plan, New Zealand Architecture Quay Street Redevelopment, Auckland New Zealand Architecture Development – NZ Master Plan, City Centre Project 30 Jul 2014 Auckland City Centre Master Plan Auckland Council seeks designers for redevelopment of Quay Street Auckland Council is seeking proposals from designers to assist with the future redevelopment of … Read more

ASB North Wharf Auckland building design

ASB North Wharf

Design: BVN Donovan Hill with Jasmax

The New Zealand Architecture Medal is the highest architectural honour in New Zealand and is conferred upon just one project that is considered superlative.

ASB North Wharf in Auckland by Australian architects BVN Donovan Hill in association with New Zealand architects Jasmax received this coveted prize at the New Zealand Architecture Awards announced in Auckland on 9 May.

Christchurch New Central Library

Christchurch New Central Library 1

Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects + Architectus

Danish schmidt hammer lassen architects and New Zealand based Architectus have won the commission to design the New Central Library in Christchurch, New Zealand. The new library, which will be up to approximately 12,000 square metres, will be one of the anchor projects in the Recovery Plan for the city of Christchurch after the damaging earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.

Winsomere Cres Auckland, New Zealand

Winsomere Cres House 5

Design: Dorrington Architects & Associates. A contemporary home incorporates the charming but time-worn house, and capitalises on the stunning views on offer. The original house on this waterfront site was a double-skin brick bungalow with warren-like rooms and little connection with the foreshore.

Christchurch Airport Regional Terminal Building

Christchurch Airport Regional Terminal Building

The small but impressive Regional Terminal at Christchurch Airport, a joint development between Air New Zealand and Christchurch International Airport received two awards at the 2013 Canterbury Architecture Awards.

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki wins World Building of the Year at World Architecture Festival 2013: A striking, beautiful building that is dominated by its oversailing roof shaped like fingers reaching out into the sky.

Waterfall Bay House, Marlborough Sounds

Waterfall Bay House - New Zealand Residence

Waterfall Bay House New Zealand: In a remote bay in the Marlborough Sounds this house emphasises the steepness of the topography. Set close to the water it runs along the contour as a two storey primary element incorporating living areas above and guest rooms below.

Beach Retreat Bay of Islands: NZ Residence

Beach Retreat Bay of Islands: New Zealand Residence

Beach Retreat House New Zealand: on a waterfront site in the Bay of Islands, five separate wings are located to reinforce the natural typography and create a sense of community around the central living area.

Brown Vujcich House – Herne Bay Property

Brown Vujcich House Herne Bay property

Brown Vujcich House located on a narrow urban site in the heart of Herne Bay. Tight site controls and a sloping site resulted in a long narrow building form that steps down the slope of the site.

Timms Bach Kaitoke Beach NZ property

Timms Bach Kaitoke Beach: New Zealand Beach Property

Timms Bach New Zealand, the fourth in a series of 7 baches that designed on great barrier island by Herbst Architects. In is located in a small residential strip which t junctions with a wild east coast beach namely Kaitoke.

Under Pohutukawa, Piha: New Zealand Property

Under Pohutukawa, Piha: New Zealand property

Under Pohutukawa, Piha waterfront property, NZ North Island home design by Herbst Architects: The Pohutukawa is New Zealand’s national tree, it is known as the NZ Christmas tree as it flowers bright red is summer. Pohutukawas are protected under local authority regulations.