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The first thing one notices is that the building is clad in handmade bricks that somewhat echo the nearby, heritage material palette but with a modern, light colouration and more streamlined proportions so as to hint at something quite rare happening

For our cover story you wrote about the personal home of a well-known local architect (Tim Hay from Fearon Hay Architects), what did you find the most appealing about this space? I loved the way this home had aged so handsomely, and the simplicity an

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As the sun rose on the first morning of 2020, my children and I watched it make its way over the gabled roofs of a group of timber cabins near the base of Mt Ruapehu. Through a hazy sky, the light this burnt orange sun cast over the central plateau t

From the artful use of the semicircle in a Tutukaka Coast home that is akin to a series of timber tents, where passageways between rooms are exterior, to a particularly playful home on a steep site in Wellington, where the small footprint is offset b

Carters Rd kitchen Eterno Design Ashburton The interplay between exterior greenery, natural light, architecture, shadows, and materiality here lend this space a stunning sense of calm and subtle elegance. “The Topus Caesarstone island bench top is m

Tell us a little about your individual backgrounds. Claire Natusch (CN): I owe a lot to Mitchell and Stout Architects, where I worked for eight years, mainly on houses and residential extensions. They made the often-overlooked tenets of good house