The Past Is Present

In exhibitions at public galleries around the country, artists reflect on our collective, individual and cultural histories.

Why I Walk Carl Douglas

How the experience of walking reveals our world to us and informs our sense of our place in it.

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.

Humble Special

PAC Studio designs a home on a tiny budget in the bush above the Kaipara Harbour.

Modern Love

Assembly Architects draws on lightweight Californian modernism to craftan elegant mountain retreat.

Family Tree

On a leafy site in the Waikato, Tane Cox crafts a subtle home for three generations

LOW PROFILE

Sometimes, strict covenants can be a blessing in disguise.

Fine Line

A house in a vineyard by Stuart Gardyne shows country living need not be rustic.

Elegant Shed

Ben Daly rehabilitates a farm building with a long family history on the Canterbury Plains.

Perfect Pitch

An encampment by an inlet casually inhabits land at Tawharanui.

Up You Go

A sleepout and retreat in the bush at Piha.

Seeking Shelter

A beach house on Waiheke Island quietly slips from view.

The Boat House

A notional shed on a jetty above a beach on Kawau Island.

Inside Out

The Herbst bach on Great Barrier Island turns 20.

Step Into The Light

Four mid-century enthusiasts resurrect an original design by Allan Mitchener.

Stretch And Grow

Rich Naish taps into family heritage to extend a character cottage in Christchurch.

Sunny Side Up

Pac Studio deploys light and fun through materials for a bungalow extension.

Age Of Enlightenment

Sixteen years on, Daniel Marshall reworks an early design with a fresh new perspective.

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.

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.

Feathers' Nest

Jackie and Tim Feather give Vaughn McQuarrie a detailed brief for their bush bach on a south-facing Waiheke site.

Sometimes Randomness Can Be Way More Interesting

A challenging house above Matiatia has softened into the Waiheke Island landscape, without losing its edge.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Base Camp

Vaughn McQuarrie draws on the bivouac tradition to design an enigmatic little house near Queenstown.

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.

Rough Diamond Winner

With its striking concrete diagrid roof and sense of fun, our Home of the Year 2019 is a truly Auckland house.