For its new global headquarters in Penrose, Fisher & Paykel asked for a workplace that feels like home. RTA Studio began the response with mass timber and design clues from the volcanic ground of old Auckland.
For its new global headquarters in Penrose, Fisher & Paykel asked for a workplace that feels like home. RTA Studio began the response with mass timber and design clues from the volcanic ground of old Auckland.
Wedged into a cliffside beside the wild harbour
of Wellington’s Eastern Bays, this year’s Home
of the Year is a masterly object full of sculpture
and craftsmanship, grandeur and human scale.
James Corles discusses his meteoric ascent and the ideas that have defined his architectural career.
Spacecraft Architects’ Caro Robertson and Tim Gittos are the 2026 recipients of the F. Gordon Wilson Fellowship for Affordable Housing, a $20,000 award from Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects and the family of the former Government Architect that funds a self-directed design and research project on housing affordability.
Behind the cloak-like unitised aluminium façade of this building is a diagrid structure that pushes boundaries of what mass timber can do. We caught up with Jaimie Whitehead, Associate at Dunning Thornton, who worked closely with RTA Studio on the design of Fisher & Paykel Appliances HQ.
Mycelium, a cracked pecan husk, a cement-works crusher, a picnic and a lancewood: the finalists and winner of the 2027 Brick Bay Folly competition each found a different story for the same pecan grove.
At the Nurse Maude Hospice Palliative Care Service in Christchurch, designed by Sheppard & Rout Architects, the architecture’s quietest decisions do the most work, making the difficult, intimate business of end-of-life care a little easier for patients, families and nurses.
A first look at the all the winners from the Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects’ national awards for 2026
Other than picnic stops and plaques marking some grandparent’s favourite spot, what do public benches offer a civil society? Paererewā, an impressive group of social and cultural entrepreneurs, has banded together to answer just that.
Born from the loss of Founders Theatre and a tricky riverbank site, Jasmax’s BNZ Theatre in Hamilton avoids the usual compromises of civic architecture, delivering a truly world-class performance space that opens to both the city and Waikato Te Awa
Architecture New Zealand magazine and the contributions of Nathan Inkpen, Amanda Harkness and Chris Barton have been recognised with the NZIA President’s Award at the 2026 Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects National Awards.
While converting a commercial building into a mosque, a group of students and volunteers developed patterns that weave together symbols of journey, place and belonging, all drawn from Muslim, Māori and Pacific traditions.
Ōrua’s Rameka Alexander-Tu’inukuafe talks about the many ways in which te ao Māori and architecture intertwine in his own practice.
A trip to the Mediterranean brings up some questions about timelessness, the pressures of globalisation and rapid expansion, and the inherent dangers of greenwashing architecture.
Rethinking acoustic solutions through sustainable materials, considered design and reduced environmental impact
For its new global headquarters in Penrose, Fisher & Paykel asked for a workplace that feels like home. RTA Studio began the response with mass timber and design clues from the volcanic ground of old Auckland.
Yasmeen Lari, the 2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medallist, left conventional practice to build with bamboo, mud and lime among Pakistan’s poorest rural communities. In Auckland for in:situ 2026, she talked about donor money, building codes, the colonised mind, and why an architect should aim to make herself redundant.
Architecture Aotearoa’s roving reporters took on the biggest ever in:situ conference to capture the mood of the industry, the current defining ideas, and discuss how the world is going about the businesses
of design and urbanism.
Architect and academic Dr Charmaine ‘Ilaiū Talei on returning to the Tongan dwelling, the slow work of making buildings people keep loving, and why the most useful part of a brief is often delivered on the walk to the car park.
Nicolas Moreau of Moreau Kusunoki — the firm responsible for the Guggenheim in Helsinki concept and the latest renovations of Paris’s Centre Pompidou — speaks about rethinking museum resilience through design.
Can the land-use patterns we’ve created and inherited be made to work better for how we want to live today? Australian architect Damian Madigan and urban designer Skye Duncan offered up a few ideas at in:situ
David Kaunitz (DK) and Ka Wai Yeung (KWY) founded Kaunitz Yeung Architecture, the husband-and-wife practice based in Redfern, Sydney, to bring high-quality architecture to some of the most disadvantaged communities in Australia and the Pacific.
A sequence of arches traces the evolution of this 1940s brick-and-tile home, leading from its original rooms to a generous, light-filled extension.
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Entries to Home of the Year 2024 are now open.
Home of the Year is an annual programme that celebrates the country’s best new homes, and comes with a $10K prize for the overall winner.
Click here to enter, or to find out more about the 2024 awards programme.
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In the Coromandel, a home with a humble profile and a thoughtful design makes the most of a stunning location.
This sculptural Northland bach is a perfect north arrow on a remote farm high above the sea.
Built with awe-inspiring attention to detail, this Arrowtown home is a fresh interpretation of a familiar Otago rural vernacular.
Part gallery, part sculptural abode, this award-winning home above Takapuna Beach is surprisingly secluded.
A hilltop home in Dunedin becomes a gallery of sorts, its form an object of art itself – one of warmth, playfulness, and urbanity.
With the sun on its bow and the community at its stern, this is a house in which the elements are always front of mind.
A mature and restrained response to an awe-inspiring location. The architect has combined a wide range of influences — from Sri Lankan to,
This Auckland home delightfully reimagines city living, marrying privacy with insightful and intimate layers of connection.
