This immersive, multi-sensory installation was conceived as an elemental world — inviting visitors into a place where architecture, landscape, and serenity are experienced as a single, interdependent experience.
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.
A shape designed to provoke, the Matau Seat from Imperfettolab has a primitive charm from the first encounter.
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.
Two new projects intelligently embed Maoritanga values across architectural, interior, artistic and graphic design elements.
As Interior of the Year returns to spotlight the country’s most considered spaces, long-time sponsor Powersurge reflects on more than three decades supporting New Zealand architecture and design.
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.
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.
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.
The NZIA’s 2026 in:situ conference will bring together speakers from across the globe — united by manaakitanga as both theme and practice.
City Gallery Wellington director Elizabeth Caldwell admires a building from Deco’s heyday.
