Architect Brady Gibbons expertly incorporated the key elements of the coast, a winding stream, and the need for shelter from the harsh climate into the design of this home. The vertical cedar cladding, combined with sliding screens, gives the house its unique exterior character.
Climb Mount Manaia and the triangular form of this family home appears as a subtle marker in a striking landscape.
On a working farm between Christchurch and Kaikoura, this home artfully utilises Colorsteel cladding to create a dynamic definition within a palette of duality.
In the Coromandel, a home with a humble profile and a thoughtful design makes the most of a stunning location.
Balancing a beachfront site with a unique design presented PRD Construction with one of its more fascinating builds to date.
Resembling a simple shed, this budget-conscious minor dwelling at Waipu is a place of rest and contemplation.
Part Slim Aarons, part Los Angeles hillside paid, this fun and beautifully detailed Christchurch home by PRau is proud of its modernist soul.
Higher density requires not just good design but good manners. This leafy, central-Nelson house by Irving Smith Architects sought to do just that.
A large family home elegantly reaches out to meet Papamoa’s everchanging dunescape, folding indiscernibly into the public realm.
Designed for a couple who are avid surfers, this clever addition on a compact coastal site is both overtly contemporary and entirely sympathetic to its context.
One of the latest offerings on the northern end of Lake Wakatipu is the Great Glenorchy Alpine Base Camp, a place that is down to earth, adventurous, and highly sociable.
On a small, suburban hillside site in Christchurch, the design response for this family home was driven by verticality.
With two clear narratives at play, rural and maritime, this Coromandel home of geometric playfulness has a life of its own.
Poised above a desert-like Central Otago valley full of weather extremes, this house is part Americana, part experiment in slow architecture.
Against the backdrop of Mount Cardrona, and honouring the area’s gold-mining days, a barn-style home is devised as a journey of tactility and colour, mimicking the highly seasonal hues of this well-known rural valley.
Three hundred or so metres above sea level in the far north, Geoff Fraser found the perfect patch of land for his latest house. Completely isolated and about a kilometre from the road, Geoff’s hilltop 15ha site is strewn with large volcanic boulders and surrounded by mature native bush. The air is clean, the views are immense and the solitude is all-consuming.
Architect Brady Gibbons expertly incorporated the key elements of the coast, a winding stream, and the need for shelter from the harsh climate into the design of this home. The vertical cedar cladding, combined with sliding screens, gives the house its unique exterior character.
Climb Mount Manaia and the triangular form of this family home appears as a subtle marker in a striking landscape.
Architect Brady Gibbons expertly incorporated the key elements of the coast, a winding stream, and the need for shelter from the harsh climate into the design of this home. The vertical cedar cladding, combined with sliding screens, gives the house its unique exterior character.
Climb Mount Manaia and the triangular form of this family home appears as a subtle marker in a striking landscape.
