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Eight architectural projects across Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay have been deemed the very best in Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of

Auckland-based movement studio Sala has expanded its Brown Street site in Ponsonby with the opening of Sonar, a new 150sqm reformer Pilates studio designed to refine both spatial experience and practice.

Across three days, Open Christchurch invites us to look again at the city, and to better understand the thinking behind the spaces we move through every day.

Designed by Toronto studio Futurstudio, Sant Roch reimagines ancient bathing rituals through contemporary architecture and sensory design.

Gel Architects have transformed a long-abandoned, dilapidated church into four refined apartments, deftly balancing ecclesiastical gravitas with a dose of contemporary cool.

It is often in the pursuit of simplicity that great design takes shape. A recent collaboration between VidaSpace and Powersurge articulates that premise with purity, precision, and a quietly powerful presence.

High above Aotea Square and what is likely to become Auckland’s busiest transport link, Te Waihorotiu Station, a new vertical village is under way: a place to live, work, play.

In a first for New Zealand, 30 new social housing apartments were opened last month in a heritage building in Dunedin, designed in a creative cross-Tasman collaboration between a Dunedin couple and an architecture firm in Tasmania.

This pool house is a dichotomy of sorts — on a residential site, it is commercially proportioned — and meticulously considered as both a public and private facility.

Barcelona-based New Zealander Bergendy Cooke, the 2021 Home of the Year winner, has designed a hotel in Marrakech, Morocco for an Austrian hotelier, and the result is as intriguing as it is memorable.

Simon James has a new home – a spacious, light-filled showroom in the heart of Mount Eden, casting the brand's elegant, contemporary designs in an industrial setting.

Just near The Octagon in Dunedin, a 158-year-old two-storey commercial building had been empty for several years, slowly deteriorating amidst the hustle and bustle of Princes Street. Potter Amanda Shanley changed that.

Intersecting a meandering public pathway that leads through the dunes, a new building seeks to be both part of the landscape and offer pockets of shelter from it.

New Zealand’s second apartment complex to have ever achieved the top Homestar rating is an urban experiment focused on people and their place in the land, rather than strictly about architectural form.

Sala introduces Sonar

Auckland-based movement studio Sala has expanded its Brown Street site in Ponsonby with the opening of Sonar, a new 150sqm reformer Pilates studio designed to refine both spatial experience and practice.

What to See at Open Christchurch

Across three days, Open Christchurch invites us to look again at the city, and to better understand the thinking behind the spaces we move through every day.

ALT by VidaSpace

VidaSpace is defined by a certain restlessness, a refusal to be confined by what has come before. With the launch of ALT, that mindset finds its clearest expression yet.

Wellness, Elevated

With its barn-like form and finely tuned material palette, the Sorrento Bathhouse reframes the wellness retreat as an exercise in architectural precision.

Yiaga

Nestled within Fitzroy Gardens in East Melbourne, a modest structure has offered respite and refreshments for more than a century.

Sacred Ground

Gel Architects have transformed a long-abandoned, dilapidated church into four refined apartments, deftly balancing ecclesiastical gravitas with a dose of contemporary cool.

Perfectly Understated

It is often in the pursuit of simplicity that great design takes shape. A recent collaboration between VidaSpace and Powersurge articulates that premise with purity, precision, and a quietly powerful presence.

Vertical Village

High above Aotea Square and what is likely to become Auckland’s busiest transport link, Te Waihorotiu Station, a new vertical village is under way: a place to live, work, play.

Road to Salvation

In a first for New Zealand, 30 new social housing apartments were opened last month in a heritage building in Dunedin, designed in a creative cross-Tasman collaboration between a Dunedin couple and an architecture firm in Tasmania.

Empathic Lightness: Inside Kowtow’s new Melbourne store

In a late-1800s building of timber, brick, iron, and bluestone in a character-filled street in the inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, New Zealand-brand Kowtow has opened its first international boutique, designed by Auckland-based interior architect Rufus Knight.

Theatrical Colour

The refurbishment of Wellington’s St James Theatre received a coveted accolade at the 2023 Dulux Colour Awards, being named the New Zealand Grand Prix winner. We talk to the designer behind this majestic restoration.

The Pool

This pool house is a dichotomy of sorts — on a residential site, it is commercially proportioned — and meticulously considered as both a public and private facility.

Wanderlust

Barcelona-based New Zealander Bergendy Cooke, the 2021 Home of the Year winner, has designed a hotel in Marrakech, Morocco for an Austrian hotelier, and the result is as intriguing as it is memorable.

A spatial evolution

A Spatial Evolution

Simon James has a new home – a spacious, light-filled showroom in the heart of Mount Eden, casting the brand’s elegant, contemporary designs in an industrial setting.

Of Brick and Soul

Ockham Residential’s Mark Todd speaks to HOME’s editor, Clare Chapman, about Ponsonby’s latest residential development — a glistening landmark building due for completion next year.

Home of the Arts

The new Christchurch’s home for New Zealand arts, Ravenscar House Museum, opened its doors in November.

Much Aroha

New Zealand’s second apartment complex to have ever achieved the top Homestar rating is an urban experiment focused on people and their place in the land, rather than strictly about architectural form.

Soul Serving

The move towards having organically farmed gardens sitting alongside hospitality venues is a growing trend in contemporary landscape architecture, where chefs and horticulturalists work hand in hand, planning menus based on what is growing in the garden. 

Little Retreats: The Hotel Britomart

Cooper and Company’s transformation of the Britomart precinct in Auckland’s waterfront was a game-changer not just for the City of Sails but as a wider-reaching example of respectful and forward-thinking urban regeneration.