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Figgy Logic

A meeting of minds prompts some garden-variety philosophising.

Home Events 2018

HOME’s architecture and design-focussed events are a great way to get inspired and stay in touch with the latest industry developments.

Glass House

Even the most rudimentary research on architect Claude Megson throws up the fact that he was something of an egotist.

Art Archipelago

A forgotten corner of Japan has been transformed by art, architecture and nature – brought together with exquisite consequences.

Magical Thinking

Our 2017 Home of the Year is a house for a young family by a young architect in a provincial town – and yet it has much to teach city dwellers about how to live.

'Taihoa' Translates Loosely As 'No Hurry'

A private tramping hut in the Orongorongo Valley embodies the prelapsarian spirit of the people who built it by hand 56 years ago.

This Is A Secluded Spot That Locals Simply Call 'Tara'

Gerrad Hall designs a series of modern farm buildings for collaborative clients in a valley near Mangawhai.

A Clever Bach On A Dune, Like A Blade Of Grass In The Sun

Now, this is how a beach house should be: wet dogs and driftwood, wet towels and sand on the floor, discarded boardgames and kids – lots and lots of kids.

Memory, A New House, And A Tennis Court With A View

Designed on the footprint of memories, this Opahi Bay home has history in its DNA.

Thank Doc

Wanaka holds a lot of significance for owners Kathryn and Matt.

A Place To Paint Colin Mccahon In Auckland

An in-depth exhibition of Colin McCahon’s work focuses on his connection with Auckland and marks the centenary of his birth. Auckland Art Gallery curator Ron Brownson discusses the survey of one of New Zealand’s foremost artists.

Lost And Found

Behind the scenes at Post hoc by Dane Mitchell, New Zealand’s representative at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Forever Relevant

Planned obsolescence is anathema to Dieter Rams and Vitsœ, the company that makes his classic furniture at its low-energy headquarters in central England.

Bend & Stretch

Project Minor dwellingArchitect Pat de Pont, SGALocation Mt Eden, AucklandBrief Build a secondary dwelling for rental, no bigger than 65 square metres

Tall Order

Ronnie van Hout’s artwork at Potters Park in Mt Eden, Auckland, is a massive undertaking in scale and skill.

Glass House

Monmouth’s makers realise their dream of opening their own store.

Going Solo

In remote Spain, Mary Gaudin discovers architecture that’s worth travelling for.

Pot Kettle Black

In the hands of Wellington ceramicist Richard Stratton, the humble teapot transcends its origins to become high art.

The Right People

In the New Plymouth home of the late Tom Kreisler and his widow Lesley, Mexican artefacts and family heirlooms rub shoulders with Tom’s diffuse, large-scale paintings.

Model Citizen

Assembly Architects develops a novel process for getting houses built fast, without compromising design.

Blade Runner

An enigmatic house by Tim Dorrington up to a creek, while turning its on an overlooked corner of land edges back on suburban neighbours.

Fearon Hay Has Created A Moody Retreat In The Mountains Near Arrowtown.

Its almost filmic. After turning off the main road to Gibbston and up the switchback Crown Range Road, you turn onto a rutted gravel driveway and a dark house in the distance flits in and out of view.

In 1968, Claude Megson Devised A House Of Angles, Drama And Intrigue For The Artist Roy Good In Oratia

This year Roy Good celebrates 50 years as a practising artist and designer.

Going Coastal

On a good day, the view stretches up the harbour to Hobsonville in one direction, and the Auckland Harbour Bridge in the other.

Purple Patch

Our writer reflects on the season that denotes change and ponders its power for genuine metamorphosis.

My Favourite Building

Sophie Wallace of Parlour Projects visits the Martin House by John Scottin Hawke’s Bay.

1966 & 2016 Maurice Mahoney Fendalton

The architect’s legacy has largely been obliterated from the landscape by the Christchurch earthquakes, but the Mahoney family home has been respectfully reinstated.

c1965 Don Cowey Remuera

With a respectful renovation, architect Julian Guthrie maximises a modernist home that efficiently fits five bedrooms into its modest footprint.

Future Proofing

In a case of home as tardis, the past, present and future are all wrapped up in the four walls that Douglas Lloyd Jenkins inhabits in life and work.

The Plausible Rogue

A new book on John Scottby David Straight celebrates the life and work of one of New Zealand’s most important architects – this extract focuses on the 1970s, in which he built three key houses.