After years of neglect, Johnstone Callaghan Architects bring a mid-century gem in Ōtautahi Christchurch back from the brink.
Updated and expanded over two decades, this Ian Athfield compound in Karaka Bay reveals surprise and delight around every curve and corner.
A new timber-lined passage provides a tranquil transition between mid-century family home and modern retreat in Tāmaki Makaurau.
A charred larch volume brings a delightful geometry and sense of space to this mid-century house extension by a.k.a Architecture’s Anne Kelly.
Nick Rowe turns a former state house in Riverhead into a mini modernist compound centred around a serene courtyard.
Forgotten for five decades, the Lee House proves to be one of Aotearoa architecture’s best-kept secrets.
A 1970s office building by Trengrove & Blunt finds new life as a home and studio in central Ōtautahi Christchurch.
A 1985 house by the late John Scott in Havelock North settles into middle age with loving owners.
A rare Christchurch house by the late Sir Ian Athfield proves a wonderful backdrop for a collection of classic mid-century pieces.
Between 1973 and 1985, Ron Sang built a glamorous house for art. Forty years on, it has a whole new lease of life.
Fifteen years after stumbling across it, Kate and Matt Arnold restore a forgotten modernist gem in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
The restoration of this mid-century gem by Albert Goldwater reveals glimmers of the home’s personal history.
A sympathetic renovation returns this 1960s hilltop home in Ōtautahi Christchurch to its family-centric roots.
An iconic piece of furniture dresses up for its 50th anniversary.
After a painstaking rebuild, Young Architects have ensured the legacy of Sir Miles Warren’s Dorset Street Flats lives on.
When Inhouse moved its design studio to a quiet pocket of bush in Birkenhead, Tāmaki Makaurau, a garden was top of mind.
A magnificent new book by Bridget Hackshaw – daughter of architect James Hackshaw – celebrates a unique collaboration.
Uncovering an intriguing house by two modernist architects above Moncks Bay in Ōtautahi.
John Goldwater’s magnificent centre for the Auckland Hebrew Congregation faces an uncertain future.
Ann Shelton and Duncan Munro meticulously restore the original modernist colour scheme in their 1950s home.
A new book rediscovers a forgotten — and endangered — modernist classic by Len Hoogerbrug in suburban Hastings.
