Blending the serene elegance of Swedish and Japanese design, this washi paper pendant draws inspiration from the architect's Archipelago House, its first home and creative muse.
This year, the Brick Bay Folly entrants have reimagined a quiet corner of the sculpture trail’s pecan grove in unexpected ways. Five finalists have emerged, each offering a distinct vision for the site. Vote for your favourite entry and win with Brick Bay Folly and Architecture Aotearoa.
Outdoor furniture occupies a particular territory in design. It must withstand exposure, movement, and changing seasons while retaining the material presence and refinement expected of furniture inside the home. At Tim Webber, performance and aesthetics meet in perfect harmony.
Sculpted piles, intricate weaves, and richly tactile surfaces bring a new material dimension to BAYA’s summer collection, carrying the warmth and texture of the interior into outdoor spaces.
A solitary, moveable figure casts a designer’s life story into light, inviting contemplation as its sculptural form bathes a space in a gentle, golden glow.
Autex Acoustics®’ five new colours Colosseum, Marina, Park, Petra, and Rushmore are a collection of muted, architecture and nature-inspired tones that bring warmth, character, and functionality to interior spaces.
Interior designer Nicola Ross speaks about the full-height joinery, shoji-inspired detailing and quiet material choices behind The Treehouse’s kitchen, and why restraint is not the same as minimalism.
On Kawau Island, a short boat ride from Auckland, Parohe Island Retreat pairs Scandinavian-inspired cabins with native bush and sheltered harbour waters — three-day retreats built around slow food, guided movement, and stillness.
Jean-Marie Massaud envisioned the Kensington table as if it emerged from an art foundry, making its intricate details truly stand out.
Floating like specimens, the pieces in interiors photographer Kelsie Barley's debut fine art collection are at once intoxicating and disconcerting.
The annual Dulux Colour Forecast is a vibrant exploration of the colours that will shape our homes in the year ahead. With the unveiling of the 2027 forecast, we explore the key themes — intentional creativity and belonging — across three distinct palettes: Play, Sensory, and Treasure.
Last week architects, designers, and built-environment leaders from Aotearoa and across the Commonwealth came together for three days of ideas, inspiration, and connection.
Rich Naish of RTA has just been announced as the recipient of the Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZIA Gold Medal for 2026 — the highest honour the institute presents annually to those working in architecture in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Like the late-afternoon hour it's named for, the 4PM chaise captures a moment of transition — when the workday begins to soften into evening repose.
Since 1959, Bledisloe House has anchored central Auckland, its rhythmic concrete grid and board-formed structure embodying the optimism of post-war modernism. As the building enters a new chapter, Alexander &CO. has been appointed to reimagine its interiors with renewed purpose.
Cities across the globe face an ongoing challenge: how to deliver density that makes our cities better places for people. This is a complex and deeply consequential task. Are our current planning systems up to it?
At Waihi Beach, a new wellness destination reimagines the familiar language of contemporary recovery spaces.
This spring, The Lightship returns with First Light, a year-long programme that opens with new works by three leading wāhine Māori artists.
With a nod to the mid-century, this contemporary farmhouse set among vineyard-covered hills speaks to its rural setting.
As the Interior of the Year awards get underway, Peter Fell reflects on three decades supporting New Zealand’s architecture and design industry, and the growing role of coloured concrete in shaping contemporary interiors.
As a founding sponsor of the Interior of the Year awards, Resene continues to support the architects and designers shaping New Zealand interiors.
Luminous, natural, and light: the whites in the Dulux Colours of New Zealand range have become timeless favourites. These tried and tested colours have been used by architects and designers for over 20 years, and the newest white is equally as alluring: Dulux Mt Hutt.
New Zealand architects have long occupied a privileged position in the art market: as buyers, commissioners, and collaborators. The recent sale of Sir Miles Warren’s collection at Webb’s Auction House made that relationship visible at scale.
As the 2026 Interior of the Year Awards programme gets underway, we caught up with Laminex New Zealand about its long-standing support of the architecture and design industry, the future of local manufacturing, and why celebrating exceptional New Zealand interiors matters more than ever.
Since its arrival in 2021, Kayu Studio has shaped a distinct aesthetic, one that now finds new expression with the opening of its third showroom in Aotearoa. Here, the retail environment is reimagined as something more considered.
In a fittingly colourful gala event, the winners of the prestigious 40th Dulux Colour Awards celebrated the milestone occasion at the Sydney Opera House. Here are the standout New Zealand projects.
There’s a certain allure to pieces that are defined by a story of locality. In the case of the Kovacs collection, that story begins in Ōtautahi.
Among the many doors along Ponsonby Road, few reveal treasures as quietly compelling as those within Handcrafted Modern.
Entering The Central Art Gallery is an encounter with layered histories. The former Canterbury College Library, a Gothic Revival structure completed in 1916, now holds a changing collection of contemporary art within its storied walls.
With a design that draws on the language of ancient bath houses, the former Birkenhead Post Office building has been transformed into a contemporary wellness centre.
The NZIA’s 2026 in:situ conference will bring together speakers from across the globe — united by manaakitanga as both theme and practice.
We caught up with Steve Aschebrock, managing director of Inzide — an Interior of the Year partner — to discuss the brand’s longstanding support of New Zealand’s architecture and design community, and the trailblazing sustainability initiatives shaping its future.
Amid the apple orchards of Ōrātia in West Auckland, ceramicist and sculptor Melissa Hastings crafts functional stoneware deeply embedded in the natural world.
Approaching interiors as an expression of the people who live within them, Amier Home encourages clients to build spaces around instinct, atmosphere, and the objects they genuinely connect with.
There’s an intriguing realism to Anieszka Banks’ Harvest series — candles that take their form directly from seasonal produce, translating the everyday into something entirely unexpected.
There’s an infinite energy to Sally Bulling’s work: it’s dramatic, elaborate, and infused with deep hues, rich metallics, sweeping gestures, and elaborate pours. There’s movement, intrigue, and an unexpected harmony.
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.
Flexform’s latest collection, revealed as part of the brand’s exhibition in Milan, The Private Lives of Objects, explores how individual pieces do more than simply occupy space — rather, they act as silent witnesses to daily ritual; repositories of memory, accompanying our lives with grace and discretion.
A new collaboration between Copenhagan-based design duo atelier axo and BoConcept has produced a dining collection of alluring clarity.
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.
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.
At Milan Design Week, Poliform transformed the storied halls of Palazzo Clerici. The 18th-century residence, layered with history and texture, became the setting for the brand’s newest kitchen systems.
During Milan Design Week, Artemest’s New Zealand partner Obery Studio guided a group of designers through the brand’s L’Appartamento exhibition. We speak to Jane Mason and Lindy Messam of Obery about the experience.
Celebrating its 15th year, Resident returns to Copenhagen’s 3daysof design, continuing a new chapter for the New Zealand studio within one of the global design industry’s defining gatherings.
Eden Studio works with the raw beauty of natural fibres to craft designer rugs and carpets that are made with intention, and refined in detail.
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.
In a collaboration with interior designer Tali Roth, Lo & Co Interiors introduces an Italian-inspired hardware collection that echoes some of the country’s most recognisable pasta forms.
Titled Ai Weiwei: About Silk, the installation recasts silk as a medium for ideas, resistance, and memory
From a new purpose-built headquarters in Christchurch to sculptural works shaped by playfulness and atmosphere, Nightworks Studio enters a new era under the direction of Kiri Morgan.
A softer, more tactile language is becoming prominent in the global design story. In New Zealand, this direction is finding expression in interiors that offer a more profound connection to nature.
At this year’s edition of Milan Design Week, light became sculpture – art that transcends function and encourages contemplation.
Wandering Melbourne’s laneways, Rachel Rush was always fascinated by the juxtaposition of the static built forms and the ever-changing canvases of their walls.
A piece that captures the easy rhythm of holiday living and brings it quietly into the everyday.
Muuto introduced its annual living space during Milan Design Week, this year exploring the interplay of feeling and function.
Fourteen architectural projects across the top of the South Island have been deemed the very best in Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects’ Regional Awards this year.
At the inaugural Salone Raritas, Xavier Lust presented forms that seemed to defy gravity, defined by unexpected influences.
We speak with internationally renowned French architect and designer Jean-Marie Massaud about the shifting definition of luxury, and how flexibility, restraint, and the discipline of subtraction inform one of his latest collections.
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.
A Sydney harbour-side apartment is reshaped through material continuity, softened geometry and a considered approach to light, creating a composed interior that frames its expansive outlook.
International artists feature strongly at this year’s Aotearoa Art Fair, with galleries presenting a range of global voices alongside local talent.
Drawing a continuous horizontal line through the room, the Orizzonte sofa is low and composed.
With sculptural clarity as a starting point, the Jube pendant is formed from two perfectly balanced volumes of hand-blown glass.
Drawing inspiration from the New York skyline, the Boulevard handle elevates entries with effortless appeal.
As part of the upcoming Aotearoa Art Fair, Wall House Party brings together leading contemporary galleries at the forefront of object-based practice to celebrate how we design and adorn domestic spaces as an act of self-expression.
What does it mean to truly care for the things we live with? Not just in the moment, but over time — across years of use, wear, and return.
Brick and terracotta bring permanence and expression to residential architecture — with CSR’s systems and digital tools enabling a more considered approach to material selection.
Two sisters — a creative director and an artist — have launched a new studio, bringing painterly abstraction into the tactile realm, with handwoven rugs that honour craft, place, and process.
More than 200 architects, designers, suppliers and homeowners gathered in Auckland to celebrate this year’s Home of the Year — an evening that brought together the breadth of Aotearoa’s residential design community.
An exhibition of Chinese contemporary art arrives in Auckland, tracing decades of cultural transformation through works that span performance, installation and digital media.
Set into a suburban site in Kohimarama, Clay Block House by Daniel Marshall Architects is a study in materiality and environmental performance.
A new architecture magazine, Architecture Aotearoa: New Zealand’s Buildings, Cities, and Culture will launch in late May 2026 as a collaboration between Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects and the publishers of HOME: Nook Publishing.
At the heart of this Wānaka home by Johnston Architects is the enduring presence of Jura Grey limestone from Quantum.
In Two Sheds by RTA Studio, winner of the 2026 Readers’ Choice Home of the Year, material choices play a crucial role in shaping the home’s quiet, tactile atmosphere.
Coloured concrete by PeterFell becomes the unifying thread of Two Sheds by RTA Studio.
Across the finalists and winners of the 2026 Home of the Year awards, colour reveals a notable shift in the way architects and designers are shaping contemporary homes in Aotearoa.
Whether bold and vibrant or soft and tonal, Fermob’s considered use of colour invites a more expressive approach to outdoor living.
With its refined materiality and clean lines, the Pipe Collection demonstrates how furniture can extend the language of a home beyond its walls.
In a new limited-edition release, the Lilum 50 sofa by Antonio Citterio for Maxalto transforms furniture into an abstract canvas.
In this thoughtfully composed interior, colour and material are carefully calibrated to balance energy with restraint. The result is a series of spaces that feel layered, expressive, and beautifully resolved.
There’s an elegance to joinery that disappears when it’s not needed. With the newly enhanced REVEGO system from Blum, that discretion — and its design potential — expands considerably.
For one weekend each year, Ōtautahi Christchurch offers a rare proposition: the chance to step inside the architecture that shapes the city.
Hettich’s FurnSpin reimagines cabinetry as a moment of movement and surprise.
With its magnetic presence, the Adrien table adds a quiet monumentality to the spaces it inhabits.
Three 2026 Home of the Year-winning projects demonstrate the versatility of Abodo timber across vastly different conditions.
In conversation with Jonathan Coote and Tobin Smith of Warren and Mahoney, Anna Dorothea Ker explores how New Zealand homes are shaped — not by a fixed blueprint, but by intuition, landscape and the evolving lives they hold.
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Objectspace launches its 2026 programme with a major new commission by Italian designer Martino Gamper, whose work has long explored the cultural and social life of furniture.
A selection of artworks from the private collection of legendary New Zealand architect Sir Miles Warren will be offered at Webb’s upcoming Works of Art auction — with proceeds supporting the preservation of his celebrated Ōhinetahi House and Garden.
Designed by Toronto studio Futurstudio, Sant Roch reimagines ancient bathing rituals through contemporary architecture and sensory design.
Set on a private estate in central Ukraine, Hata-Mazanka by YOD Group offers a contemporary interpretation of one of the country’s most recognisable vernacular forms.
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.
At this year’s EuroCucina, held as part of Salone del Mobile, Aotearoa’s Fisher & Paykel will present its most comprehensive suite of flagship appliances to date.
Inspired by the chair of the same name, the Leopold armchair is distinguished by a generous and enveloping cushion, enclosed in a minimal wooden structure that emphasises its volume and visual lightness.
For anyone considering a new build or renovation, this publication serves as a clear point of departure. It is a guide to navigating the breadth of architectural practice in Aotearoa, and of finding a studio whose approach aligns with the project at hand.
Concrete has long held a defining role in New Zealand architecture — at once structural and sculptural, robust and nuanced. Across many recent Home of the Year winners, the material emerges as a central part of the design language.
For a house so closely attuned to its coastal setting, material longevity was as critical as visual restraint. On the exterior, Dryden WoodOil in Platinum plays a subtle but pivotal role — preserving the cedar cladding while allowing it to age with grace.
New Zealand’s premier contemporary art event returns to Auckland in 2026 with its largest programme yet — bringing record international participation, expanded sectors, and a city-wide public programme.
A new design showcase puts makers, materials and process at the forefront – offering a rare snapshot of how New Zealand design is being made, right now.
With its barn-like form and finely tuned material palette, the Sorrento Bathhouse reframes the wellness retreat as an exercise in architectural precision.
In our February / March issue, we visit houses that challenge, surprise and inspire — from the limestone hills of Waipara to the sweeping coastal landscape of Pauanui.
Immediately inviting, with a silhouette defined by clean lines, the Allaperto Nautic armchair evokes the sensibility of classic nautical design without ever feeling literal.
We are deeply saddened to mark the passing of Pip Cheshire CNZM (1950 – 2026), a beloved figure in New Zealand architecture whose wit, insight and generosity shaped not only buildings but the way we speak about and understand architecture in Aotearoa.
Contemporary Chinese art, a survey of queer lens-based art in Aotearoa New Zealand and a solo exhibition of Pablo Picasso.
Radical comfort. With modularity as a starting point, Ernest is formed with soft, deconstructed volumes inspired by a down cushion.
Auckland architect Mark Frazerhurst has turned his hand to sculpture. The result is much like his buildings: precise, angular, and compelling — objects that reveal more the longer you spend with them.
