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Changer Les Idees
After a family tragedy, Aimé and Marguerite Maeght turned their summer house near Nice into a gallery and haven for artists. Today, it has one of the best private collections of modern art in Europe.
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December 2017
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Jewel Purpose
Emma Morris designs a beach house for her parents David and Lien Morris – their first architectural home and one they share with extended family.
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December 2017
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Feathers' Nest
Jackie and Tim Feather give Vaughn McQuarrie a detailed brief for their bush bach on a south-facing Waiheke site.
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December 2017
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Sometimes Randomness Can Be Way More Interesting
A challenging house above Matiatia has softened into the Waiheke Island landscape, without losing its edge.
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December 2017
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It's Nice To Move Around Your View
A bach by Gerald Parsonson in Hawke’s Bay provides places to sit in the sun, and places to retreat from the wind.
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December 2017
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'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.
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December 2017
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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.
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December 2017
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Pot Kettle Black
In the hands of Wellington ceramicist Richard Stratton, the humble teapot transcends its origins to become high art.
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August 2018
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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.
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August 2018
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Model Citizen
Assembly Architects develops a novel process for getting houses built fast, without compromising design.
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August 2018
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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.
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August 2018
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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.
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October 2018
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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.
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October 2018
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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.
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October 2018
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Purple Patch
Our writer reflects on the season that denotes change and ponders its power for genuine metamorphosis.
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October 2018
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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.
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December 2018
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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.
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December 2018
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Thank Doc
Wanaka holds a lot of significance for owners Kathryn and Matt.
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December 2018
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Design Focus
Ahead of the annual Dulux® Colour Forecast, Davina Harper reviews her Milan Design Week highlights.
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June 2019
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Urban Planning
Lisa Webb creates a home of intrigue and shadow on a tiny scrap of land that was formerly a front lawn.
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June 2019
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Model Making
Patterson Architects design a penthouse apartment for a family of six who moved from the suburbs.
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June 2019
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Street Wise
Gerald Parsonson crafts two exquisite apartments – one to live in and one to rent – for a retired couple.
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June 2019
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Design Notebook
Q&A with associate Luke Douglas of Patterson Associates.
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June 2019
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Outer Space
Craig Wilson resolves a steep, narrow site with prefabrication technology and a little humour.
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June 2019
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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.
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April 2019
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Urban Renewal
With three singular designs at Wynyard Quarter, Patrick Clifford’s team at Architectus shows how good apartment living in Auckland can be.
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April 2019
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Ground Work
Richard Naish designs a home near Arrowtown that seems to emerge from the spectacular mountain landscape.
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April 2019
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Brick By Brick
A designer creates a fortress-like home in Birkenhead Point, Auckland, for her young family.
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April 2019
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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.
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August 2019
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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.
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