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The Past Is Present
In exhibitions at public galleries around the country, artists reflect on our collective, individual and cultural histories.
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February 2020
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Why I Walk Carl Douglas
How the experience of walking reveals our world to us and informs our sense of our place in it.
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February 2020
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My Favourite Building Chlöe Swarbrick
Built on Auckland’s Karangahape Road in the 1920s, St Kevin’s Arcade has served as vocational inspiration and a meeting place for the Green MP since she was a teenager.
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February 2020
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Humble Special
PAC Studio designs a home on a tiny budget in the bush above the Kaipara Harbour.
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February 2020
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Modern Love
Assembly Architects draws on lightweight Californian modernism to craftan elegant mountain retreat.
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February 2020
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Family Tree
On a leafy site in the Waikato, Tane Cox crafts a subtle home for three generations
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February 2020
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LOW PROFILE
Sometimes, strict covenants can be a blessing in disguise.
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February 2020
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Fine Line
A house in a vineyard by Stuart Gardyne shows country living need not be rustic.
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February 2020
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Elegant Shed
Ben Daly rehabilitates a farm building with a long family history on the Canterbury Plains.
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February 2020
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Perfect Pitch
An encampment by an inlet casually inhabits land at Tawharanui.
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December 2019
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Up You Go
A sleepout and retreat in the bush at Piha.
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December 2019
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Seeking Shelter
A beach house on Waiheke Island quietly slips from view.
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December 2019
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The Boat House
A notional shed on a jetty above a beach on Kawau Island.
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December 2019
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Inside Out
The Herbst bach on Great Barrier Island turns 20.
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December 2019
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Step Into The Light
Four mid-century enthusiasts resurrect an original design by Allan Mitchener.
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October 2019
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Stretch And Grow
Rich Naish taps into family heritage to extend a character cottage in Christchurch.
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October 2019
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Sunny Side Up
Pac Studio deploys light and fun through materials for a bungalow extension.
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October 2019
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Age Of Enlightenment
Sixteen years on, Daniel Marshall reworks an early design with a fresh new perspective.
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October 2019
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My Favourite Building
Jade Kake of Matakohe Architecture & Urbanism lives in Whangarei where she stays connected to Te Whare Karakia o Pehiweri, the Anglican church built in 1888.
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June 2019
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Italian Lessons
Mary Gaudin surveys shows and installations at Milan Design Week – the world’s biggest furniture fair, which takes over the city for one crazy week.
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June 2019
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Fabric Of Life
Mary Gaudin visits a charming suburban wasteland – a collaboration by Kvadrat and fashion designer Raf Simons, based on the post-war houses of Jean Prouvé.
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June 2019
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Prêt À Porter
You’ll have to wait a while for many of the designs seen on the previous pages, but these Milan hits are in store now.
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June 2019
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Base Camp
Vaughn McQuarrie draws on the bivouac tradition to design an enigmatic little house near Queenstown.
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April 2019
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My Favourite Building
As a model of adaptive re-use, the Axis building in Parnell, Auckland, doesn’t get better, says architect and Home of the Year judge Nicola Herbst, who lived there for seven years.
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April 2019
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Rough Diamond Winner
With its striking concrete diagrid roof and sense of fun, our Home of the Year 2019 is a truly Auckland house.
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April 2019
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Interior Motive
A sophisticated retreat by architecture + at Medlands Beach on Great Barrier Island rethinks conventional bach living.
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April 2019
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Magic Trick
Our Best Small Home does more than overcome a difficult site – it makes it into something rather special indeed.
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April 2019
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Art Archipelago
A forgotten corner of Japan has been transformed by art, architecture and nature – brought together with exquisite consequences.
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April 2017
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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.
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April 2017
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Down The Line
Brief A laid-back island home where every room has sea views.
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