Building and Strengthening: An Extended Interview with James Blackburne
We speak to James Blackburne, founder of Gisborne’s Architects 44 and the incoming president of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.
We speak to James Blackburne, founder of Gisborne’s Architects 44 and the incoming president of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.
Anthony Calderone, Technical Director (Buildings), at Mott MacDonald speaks about some of the technical detail behind One New Zealand Stadium Te Kaha and how architecture and engineering worked together toward a common goal.
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Stevens Lawson Architects was tasked with creating a spiritual sanctuary in an industrial space, centimetres away from a busy parking lot.
We speak to Hon Chris Penk, Minister for Building and Construction, about the Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Bill and its potential implications for the architecture industry.
We survey our favourite shortlisted and winning Small Project Architecture entries from the 2026 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA regional awards.
St Patrick’s Chapel greets you at the front gate of Dilworth School in Epsom, Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland. Working with Dilworth’s chaplain and its headmaster, Jasmax has created a new spiritual heart for the school.
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.
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.
With its barn-like form and finely tuned material palette, the Sorrento Bathhouse reframes the wellness retreat as an exercise in architectural precision.
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.
We speak to James Blackburne, founder of Gisborne’s Architects 44 and the incoming president of Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.
Anthony Calderone, Technical Director (Buildings), at Mott MacDonald speaks about some of the technical detail behind One New Zealand Stadium Te Kaha and how architecture and engineering worked together toward a common goal.
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
The Auckland-based firm has recently won a record fifth Home of the Year overall winner award to put alongside its 2022 Gold Medal. We speak to co-director Nicholas Stevens about the practice’s residential ethos and goals.
New Zealand’s housing crisis is often framed as a technical problem of supply, regulation, or economics. As Yun Fu found out when trying to return home to Aotearoa, beneath those debates lie deeply held ideas of the good life.
Fire, earth, air, water: four elements mapped onto a half-circle above a vineyard restaurant. RTA Studio’s interior reimagining of a John Blair building is an exercise in constraint and atmosphere.
Stevens Lawson Architects was tasked with creating a spiritual sanctuary in an industrial space, centimetres away from a busy parking lot.
We speak to Hon Chris Penk, Minister for Building and Construction, about the Building (Earthquake-prone Buildings) Amendment Bill and its potential implications for the architecture industry.
We survey our favourite shortlisted and winning Small Project Architecture entries from the 2026 Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA regional awards.
St Patrick’s Chapel greets you at the front gate of Dilworth School in Epsom, Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland. Working with Dilworth’s chaplain and its headmaster, Jasmax has created a new spiritual heart for the school.
Twenty-two architectural projects across Waikato and the Bay of Plenty have been deemed the very best in Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects’ Regional Awards in 2026.
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.
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.
With its barn-like form and finely tuned material palette, the Sorrento Bathhouse reframes the wellness retreat as an exercise in architectural precision.
Nestled within Fitzroy Gardens in East Melbourne, a modest structure has offered respite and refreshments for more than a century.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The new Christchurch’s home for New Zealand arts, Ravenscar House Museum, opened its doors in November.
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.
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.
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.
