A new landmark symbolising research and knowledge was sought by the University, which values excellence, innovation and progress and reflects an openness and embrace of the wider community. FJMT and Archimedia drew inspiration directly from the fusion of natural landscape, urban form and Maori / Colonial heritage of cultural exchange. The fluid and open architectural [...]

A contemporary house that called Corinth House was completed in 2006 and designed by Daniel Marshall Architect with Daniel Lewis and Mike Hartley is located in Corinth st, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand. The Corinth St house alteration was formed out of the need to generate a functional and sensitive addition to an existing house, constructed [...]

The Signal Box designed by Melling:Morse architects, Gerald Melling and Allan Morse of Wellington’s Melling Morse Architects in Masterton, New Zealand, a Masterton house designed using the “stretched metaphor” of a Masterton Railway Station, was awarded the winning house New Zealand’s richest architecture award. The home is owned by Stephanie Chilcott, an art enthusiast and [...]

Do you know..?? A recent study by the Insulation Council of New Zealand and Australia reported that 40 per cent of Australian homes are without insulation. If we were to insulate these 2.7 million homes we could cut more than 90 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
What this tells me is that in [...]

The simple plan and the comfortable relationship of outdoor living areas are key elements to the house. The front and rear of the house are stripped by wood with shutters that open up to let light in for the kitchen. Larger garage door (three garage-type) size shutters fold up and over to open the living [...]