Courtesy of Studio MWA

Architects: Studio MWA
Location: 36 Sylvan Way, Silverstream, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
Client: Mr. Phillip Blundell &Mrs. Helen Blundell
Size: Floor area 267 sqm, terraces app. 150 sqm, landscaped over 450 sqm, sloppy site of 2,100 sqm
Structural Engineers: Meyers and Associates Ltd.- Wellington
Author: Davor Mikulcic Dipl. Eng. Arch. (Sarajevo) RAIA, ANZIA
Project Team: Davor Mikulcic, Shantanu Kirtikar, Michael Maddern, David Thompson, Daniel Casas
Builder: Maridale Construction LTD. – Upper Hutt
Photographs: Courtesy of  Studio MWA

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© Emily Andrews

Architect: Marmol Radziner
Location: Mt Barker, Wanaka, New Zealand
Executive Architect: Herriot + Melhuish (Architecture)
Project Team (MR): Ron Radziner (Design Principal), Leo Marmol (Managing Principal), Stephanie Hobbs (Design Associate), (HMA): Max Herriot (Project Director), Karl Wipatene (Project Architect), Kylie Adamson (Project Team)
Interior Designer: White Interiors
Landscape Architect: Baxter Design Group Ltd
Square Footage: 2150, (200 sqm), (3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths)
Project Date: December 2007
Photographs: Emily Andrews

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Courtesy of studio MWA ltd.

Architect: studio MWA ltd. – studio Mikulcic Worldwide Architecture
Location: 1059 Akatarawa Road, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
Client: Dianne & Barry Dulieu
Author of the project: DaVoR Mikulcic Dipl. Eng. Arch. (Sarajevo) ANZIA, RAIA
Project Team: DaVoR Mikulcic, Michael Maddern, David Thomson & Daniel Casas
Structural Engineer: ABUILD – Wellington (Mr. Michael Ives)
Land surveyor: Lendrums & Associates Ltd. – Upper Hutt
Geotechnical Engineer: ABUILD – Wellington
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Courtesy of studio MWA ltd.

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Courtesy of Stufkens + Chambers Architects

Architecture and Interiors: Stufkens + Chambers Architects
Location: Redcliffs, Christchurch, New Zealand
Structural Engineer: Aurecon
Landscape Design: Stufkens + Chambers Architects
Photographs: Courtesy of Stufkens + Chambers Architects

   
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© Paul Mcredie

Architects: Parsonson Architects Ltd
Location: Waikanae, Kapiti Coast, New Zealand
Completed: 2010
Design Team: Gerald Parsonson, Andrew Simpson
Structural Engineers: Spencer Holmes Ltd
Builder: Stratum
Photographers: Paul Mcredie

   
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© Paul Mcredie

Architects: Parsonson Architects Ltd
Location: Apple Bay, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand
Completed: 2006
Design Team: Gerald Parsonson, Craig Burt, Daniel Watt
Structural Engineers: Smart Alliances
Builder: Ken Anderson Building Ltd
Photographer: Paul Mcredie

   
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© Simon Devitt

Architects: Archoffice
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Project Director: John Ingham
Project Architect: Leon Bieldt
Sructural Engineer: Brown & Thompson
Mechanical/HVAC/Electrical Engineer: Medland Metropolis
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 194 sqm
Photographs: Simon Devitt

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© Paul McCredie

Architect: Simon Twose
Location: 6 Clermont Terrace, Kelburn Wellington, New Zealand
Client: Brett Mainey
Builder: Brett Mainey
Site Area: 251 sqm
House area: 300 sqm
Award: NZIA
Photographer: Paul McCredie

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© Simon Devitt

Architects: Stephenson & Turner
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Client: University of Auckland
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 5,000 sqm
Photographs: Simon Devitt, Sacha Stejko, Stephenson & Turner

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© Jet Productions Ltd (Mike Heydon)

Architects: Assembly Architects Limited
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Project Team: Justin Wright, Louise Wright, James Norman
Structural Engineer: Alistair Cattanach, Dunning Thornton Consultants Ltd
Metalwork Fabricator: Fraser Engineering
Services Engineer: SKM & eCubed
Contractor: Naylor Love Limited
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Jet Productions Ltd (Mike Heydon)

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Architects: Atelier Workshop
Location: Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
Structural Engineer: Spencer Holmes – Peter Smith
Project Year: 2007
Project Area: 80 sqm
Photographs: Paul Mcredie

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Courtesy of Copeland Associates Architects

In successful cities around the world, more and more people are leaving their cars behind and returning to the healthy and resilient alternatives of walking and cycling.

In January 2010, Copeland Associates Architects were commissioned by the Auckland Harbour Bridge Pathway Charitable Trust to work on a proposal for a pathway for walking and cycling connected onto the iconic Auckland Harbour Bridge. The objective of this project is to deliver the most critical link in the Auckland Region’s walking and cycling network and to energize ongoing improvements to walking and cycling facilities on both sides of the bridge. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »

© Kjell Nilsson

Architect: Architecture Bureau Ltd
Location: Mt Maunganui, New Zealand
Project Architect: Evan Mayo, BArch ANZIA
Land Surveyor: Blue Wallace Surveyors Ltd
Structural Engineer: Caledonian Design Ltd
Main Contractor: Stewart Rose Builders Ltd
Electrical: Intelectric Ltd
Cabinetry & Joinery: Fernlea Joinery Ltd
Landscaping: Hamish Lane Landscapes Ltd
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Kjell Nilsson

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© Emily Andrews

Architects: Jose Gutierrez Ltd.
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 200 sqm
Photographs: Emily Andrews

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© Brian Cully

Architects: MAP Architects – Simon Elvidge
Location: Bay of Islands, New Zealand
Project team: Simon Elvidge, Knut Menden
Structural engineer: Powell Fenwick Consultants Ltd
Main contractor: Dave Crabb, Circle D Construction
Project area: 25 sqm
Photographs: Brian Cully

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© Paul McCredie

Architects: Architectus
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Paul McCredie

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Cross Section

No.8 Wire is a paper architecture explorative analysis of the house, relative to the landscape of central Otago. As the title declares, the aesthetic is a bold foray of built form placed in conversance to the surroundings. The historic use of No.8 wire has entered into the cultural lexicon of many countries, especially the New Zealand concept of resourcefulness and creativity; best described as New Zealander’s ingenuity and adaptability.

Designed by Jonathan Gibb, the concept of No.8 Wire and its associated ideals of adaptability have been used to give emphasis to the juxtaposition of a house within the expanse of a landscape. The intimacy and concept of what constitutes a home has been simply portrayed by use of the gable end, used as an indoctrinating device to express the essence of suburbia’s aesthetic, a figure and ‘sign’ of what may constitute a home. Abstracted and re-formed into a self sustaining entity, self referential through mirroring, offset and re-expressed as a didactic expression of space.

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© Ashley Cox

Architects: Geoff Fletcher Architects
Location: Kapiti, New Zealand
Structural engineer: Dunning Thornton Ltd.
Builder: Haarlem Developments Ltd.
Project area: 70 sqm + decks
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Ashley Cox

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© First Light house

The New Zealand team from Victoria University of Wellington is the first-ever finalist from the Southern Hemisphere in the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The team is led by students from Victoria’s School of Architecture and is made up of students from a range of disciplines across the university. New Zealand is the first country in the world to see the light each day, this gave the house its name— First Light.

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© Patrick Reynolds

Architects: Architectural Ecology
Location: Dunedin, New Zealand
Structural Engineer: Hadley & Robinson Ltd
Mechanical Engineer: MSS Ltd
Contractor: Naylor Love Limited
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Patrick Reynolds

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