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Over the past three decades, Powersurge has become synonymous with powerful, enriching design. The spaces their work inhabits are sumptuous, and defined by meticulous craft.
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Over the past three decades, Powersurge has become synonymous with powerful, enriching design. The spaces their work inhabits are sumptuous, and defined by meticulous craft.
Auckland-based multimedia artist Josh Davison’s unusual pairing of techniques presents a captivating take on traditional oil painting.
Clean, green energy has never been more accessible, and, when it comes to rooftop solar installations, the myriad benefits are hard to look past.
This contemporary villa renovation in central Auckland offers a joyous distinction between old and new, and a beautiful harmony of form, material, texture, and experience.
In the dunes of Te Ārai, this coastal retreat was designed with two aims: to make its presence known and to sit quietly with its back to the forest and its face to the sea.
The latest from Snelling Studio is a minimal take on the abstract shapes of our native forest; familiar, beguiling, and perfectly distilled.
Marrying function and artistry, this five-metre bespoke pendant was designed by Nightworks Studio as a centrepiece for a dramatic double-height space within a sculptural blackened steel stair.
Michael Moore was born in the Wairarapa, where he grew up looking at the land — and never stopped. He has an innate understanding of his surroundings; it is the land that defines his work as an artist.
The 2024 New Zealand Institute of Architects Architecture Awards were announced in late November. Here, we explore the winners in the housing categories — a quartet of diverse and fresh approaches to varying concepts of ‘house’ — and look at the recipient of the Sir Ian Athfield Award for Housing.
When interior designer, Campbell Johnson, returned to New Zealand after a decade of living in Italy, one thing was certain: he had a new appreciation for living in small spaces. Combine that with his love of mid-century architecture, and the result is something truly special.
Perhaps the smallest apartment in the world, this space is a fully equipped residence that includes two infrared saunas and a whirlpool bath.
Step into the Auckland headquarters of design and make studio, Fieldcraft, and you’re immediately immersed in a world of creativity that extends well beyond these four walls. Separate from the main industrial workspace is something particularly special.
As unique as your own fingerprints, each sheet of Prime Veneer is as distinctive as the tree it was cut from. In fact, you can go as far as using the Track my Tree tool to trace exactly where your New Zealand native veneer was sourced.
This sculptural holiday home in Leigh is an artful arrangement of three buildings, an enclave of sorts, designed to accommodate various personalities and requirements.
The much anticipated 2025 Dulux Colour Forecast presents three compelling palettes designed to uplift and nurture; comforting, enlivening hues for the year ahead.
Embracing life outdoors has a new meaning, and it’s firmly centred around a beautifully streamlined range of bathing and kitchen products by ABI Interiors: the Sola Collection.
Flooring is the one element that can provide continuity and tie together an interior space. Wool flooring does so with textural warmth and, in the case of Bremworth, plenty of design flair.
Crowning Auckland’s newest skyscraper, The Pacifica penthouses, an exploration of understated luxury high above the bustling downtown precinct, have been unveiled by international design practice, Plus Architecture.
Inspired by confectionery and brutalism, this year’s Kitchen of the Year winning entry, designed by Annika Rowson, is a recipe for domestic and viral success.
In a villa renovation by Jones Architects, interior firm Sticks+Stones Design crafted a small, unassuming en suite that packs a big punch.
We sat down with Sarosh Mulla and Aaron Paterson, founders of award-winning architecture and interior practice, Pac Studio, to hear about everything from fusing beauty and sustainability to colour as a storytelling tool, and the art of designing homes that feel intuitively right.
Suzy Platt has established herself as a leading figure in New Zealand portraiture with her distinctive whimsical and emotionally engaging style. Often depicting young women, Platt’s work reveals more than just the subject matter – captivating viewers with intricate detail and a playful aesthetic.
On the banks of Lake Whakamaru is a diminutive structure. Its translucent skin forms a simple gable, a nod to the rural sheds that are dotted around the area. What’s inside tells an important story about the future of home heating and innovative ways to harness the power of renewable energy.
In the heart of Hawke’s Bay is an artisan workshop garnering significant attention, and for good reason. Led by designer and craftsman Toby Payton, Raw Concrete Design specialises in handcrafted bespoke polished concrete products for residential and commercial settings.
Thirty-six projects across seven categories have been selected from hundreds of entries as finalists in the 2024 HOME Interior of the Year Awards.
In a first for New Zealand, 30 new social housing apartments were opened last month in a heritage building in Dunedin, designed in a creative cross-Tasman collaboration between a Dunedin couple and an architecture firm in Tasmania.
In an established neighbourhood in Wānaka this holiday home presents a contemporary face to the street.
The latest luminaire from visionary New Zealand lighting designers Nightworks Studio is as playfully evocative as it is precise.
Perched high above the sea on an idyllic gently sloping hillside in the Bay of Islands is Paroa Bay Winery and Estate.
There’s an honesty to natural stone that’s hard to look past. Part of the allure is its inherent character — each piece entirely individual.
The winners of the 2024 Dulux Colour Awards seek to set precedents; to evolve our design language, and to create communities.
Experimental niche perfume house .Oddity’s ethos is simple — to inspire with offerings that pursue creative expression through craft, culture, and storytelling in an interplay of visual and olfactory arts.
The latest collection from BoConcept is all about transformation — how can a space become something entirely different with one commanding statement piece?
Architectural designer Alex Farrell and her husband Matt Farrell of Intact Construction reimagine a 1920s Auckland bungalow with coloured concrete.
Essential Induction, an innovative collaboration between Gaggenau and Cosentino, was launched at Milan Design Week with sculptural installation offering a glimpse into the future.
At the heart of the home is an evolving technology. Although it may not be visible, it’s quietly working away, forming the basis for a new era of home cooking.
Entries are now open for Home Interior of the Year 2024 – a celebration of New Zealand’s best residential interior design and architecture.
With over 50 buildings unlocking their doors for one weekend only and dozens of lead architects revealing the secrets to their creations; Open Christchurch 2024 proved to be an invaluable barometer of where the Cantabrian city’s built environment is headed.
The poetic collision between art and furniture; the tipping point from function to form; sculpture on the edge of rational and reasonable. These are the themes that RTA Studio founder Rich Naish explores in an ensemble of three pieces on show as part of an upcoming exhibition at FHE Galleries entitled ‘Almost’.
Are you looking for the best builder for your home? Here’s a definitive guide to the country’s top architectural builders by region.
Consisting of a series of interconnected rooms, the Knoll pavilion at the Milan Furniture Fair was designed by Belgian architecture practice OFFICE, and conceived as a space that envisioned life through a sequence of intimate spaces and elegant flower gardens.
The location of this home, verging on land and sea in the Christchurch suburb of Redcliffs, meant material selection was focused on both durability and the creation of a subtle elegance suited to a remarkable landscape of natural beauty.
At the centre of the renovation of a 1920s home in the Christchurch suburb of Strowan is a kitchen of beautiful juxtaposition.
In the heart of this Westmere home is a collection of beautiful, sculptural materials that emanate from the ground up to create a space of embracing warmth with an openness that takes in an unusual yet captivating green view.
Ken Crosson of Crosson Architects, who won Home of the Year 2024 for Boathouse Bay, considers a sustainable vision for our future cities — and offers his thoughts on why the imperative need for both environmental and social change is very much upon us.
ABI Interiors began its journey in a humble garage set-up on the Gold Coast, with a simple yet powerful concept: to offer an affordable range of architectural fixtures that rivalled the quality of the highest in the market.
Queenstown-based artist, Elan, has spent the past 35 years travelling the world conducting philosophy programmes for global organisations. We caught up with him about how philosophy and art intersect.
We delve into the world of colour at Milan Design Week, and find out how these global colour trends will fold into a local palette.
To mark Milan Design Week, Nilufar presented ‘Time Traveler’, a wide-ranging exhibition curated by Nilufar founder Nina Yashar.
There’s a finely crafted simplicity and considered calmness to the work being produced by young architecture studio, Seear-Budd Ross.
Win an $11,000 weekend for two at The Lindis, Ahuriri Valley.
The 2024 Readers’ Choice Home of the Year, Sumner House by RTA Studio, is a place of striking proportions and captivating creativity: a powerful response to a challenging set of site constraints.
Nine years ago Scott Thorp moved to Christchurch to be closer to the mountains. It was here that he felt most connected to the land, and a place that ultimately inspired his photographic journey.
Drawing on eight distinctive New Zealand landscapes, each reminiscent of a particular era in our colour evolution between 1830 and 1930, a new collection from Dulux is designed to turn a fresh lens on heritage renovations.
The sinuous lines of Tāmaki Makaurau’s original foreshore are at the heart of Crosson Architects’ latest project: the Elysian luxury apartment building in Auckland’s Parnell.
Adjacent to the Mangawhai estuary, this home of sweeping gestures takes cues from the natural environment — from the dark hues of pōhutukawa boughs to the lighter tones of the sandbanks.
The Christchurch company revolutionising the traditional Japanese technique of preserving wood by charring it, shou sugi ban.
At the centre of this highly sculptural home is an artful collection of moments — of views, of textures, and of creativity.
The Home of the Year 2024 awards evening at Studio Italia was an event of celebration, creativity and innovation.
We sat down with Cult Design founder, Richard Munao, to talk about the reopening of the brand’s iconic showroom in Parnell.
From the mountains of Italy, Brazil, and Spain to an Auckland stone factory, the journey of architectural stone is as awe-inspiring as the stone itself.
Wahine toa Deidre Brown has become the first non-architect to win New Zealand architecture’s highest honour.
Design workshop Powersurge has opened an immersive brick and mortar showroom at Auckland’s stunning new architectural destination, Residium.
With mirrors as her canvas of choice, Queenstown artist Sally Bulling’s abstract works are layered with a reflective, boundless energy.
Owned by culinary visionaries Sid and Chand Sahrawat, the launch of Anise earlier this month marks a new beginning for the Auckland dining scene.
Cross the threshold into Metita and you’re worlds away from the hotel lobby you were standing in moments ago.
Perched above a small settlement in the Marlborough Sounds, this home exists in perfect unity with the dramatic coastal landscape over which it looks.
We chat to Rogan Nash Architects about one of their latest projects – a family home that delivers moments of decadence and dashes of colour.
In the shadow of Te Mata Peak, Craggy Range Winery unfolds across a spectacular Hawke’s Bay landscape bounded by hills and waterways.
Cast your vote for the home you believe should win the 2024 Home of the Year Readers’ Choice Award.
Entries are open for the 38th Dulux Colour Awards, an Australasian programme designed to shine the light on colour in design.
The reinvention of a material traditionally used as armour into a contemporary architectural fabric used for everything from solar screening to dividing and defining interior spaces, and creating kinetic sculptures is a story that begins in the costumery department of the Lord of the Rings film set.
In a late-1800s building of timber, brick, iron, and bluestone in a character-filled street in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, New Zealand-brand Kowtow has opened its first international boutique, designed by Auckland-based interior architect Rufus Knight.
The winners of the Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects 2023 New Zealand Architecture Awards were announced in November. We explore some of the winning projects.
The launch of Lucy Tupu Studio in New Zealand coincides with the release of a vibrant collection, the result of a dynamic collaboration between Lucy Tupu and Max Gimblett.
Designed to merge into its coastal environs, this island home utilises board and batten cedar cladding to create a gentle visual rhythm that moves gracefully between indoors and out.
Taking the operable louvred roof to the next level, the latest innovation from Louvretec is the Retract Roof range — Opening Roofs that completely open or close at the touch of a button.
Not quite a pool and not quite a spa, the Stoked Stainless Plunge Spa strikes a perfect balance between the two with a piece that embraces the art of relaxation outdoors.
The slopes of Marlborough’s Southern Valleys are home to a new organic vintage from award-winning winemaker Jules Taylor.
In a pool house that opens to a mid-century modern home in Remuera, an interior palette was designed to reflect the original architectural language and create a strong narrative between old and new.
Inspired by cast iron handmade in the 1800s, the antique finish of this contemporary cookware could, at first touch, pass as a ceramic surface.
Industrial designer Lucas Wotawa on his latest furniture pieces, upcoming collections and a story of refinement.
These two very different tropical getaways in the Fijian islands offer an alluring escape. Immerse yourself in the stunning landscapes of Vomo Island or stay in a contemporary overwater bure at the adults-only retreat of Fiji Marriott Momi Bay.
Portraying the versatility of its designs through the grace of dancers, Belgian design house JORI is a conceptual realisation of ergonomic comfort woven into the forms of contemporary interior pieces.
This New Zealand brand draws inspiration from the rewards and challenges of life by the sea: simple, relaxing and beautiful but rugged and unforgiving.
Win a trip for two to Fiji including four nights accommodation at exclusive adults-only retreat Matamanoa Island Resort.
The 2024 Dulux Colour Forecast is a sumptuous splash of warmth, nostalgia, and vibrancy. We explore the three alluring palettes: Muse, Solstice, and Journey.
Designed by New Zealand architect Richard Priest, a luxury development in the turquoise bay of Malolo Island — a few miles away from Fiji’s largest island Viti Levu — is Vunabaka, an enclave of expansive private homes.
We chat to AAPi Design, a Fiji-based architecture firm, about the development of tropical modern resort architecture in the Fijian islands.
Across five palettes created with colours from Natural Paint Co., we bring the colours of Fiji home with tonal representations that evoke the lush island
landscapes and warm tropical waters.