Fashion and architecture and the great buildings they produce

Thinking about fashion and architecture, as we do in our latest issue, brought to mind the number of great buildings produced by the melding...

Shigeru Ban

In Auckland last week, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban gave a talk to a capacity crowd in the Auckland Town Hall. Ban is best-known for his w...

Fashion and architecture

You may or may not care, but this week is Fashion Week, so here at ACP headquarters (the home of Fashion Quarterly, and other fashion-obsess...

Little and often

I apologise for having broken one of the cardinal rules of blogging: to communicate little and often, ideally in easily digestible daily chu...

More outtakes

The house by Stevens Lawson Architects on Hawkes Bay's Te Mata Peak that is one of our Home of the Year finalists looks great from every...

Meet the Architects

Over the next few weeks we're hosting a series of evenings in Auckland and Wellington offering our readers the chance to come and meet t...

The outtakes

One of the hardest parts about laying out house shoots is showing as much of the house as possible without the layouts getting repetitive. T...

Home of the Year 2009

It's official - the 2009 Home of the Year is the Waiheke Island house by Mitchell & Stout Architects. Here it is on the cover of our...

Home of the Year on Campbell Live

TV3's Campbell Live revealed the finalists in the Home of the Year on their show last night, and they all looked terrific. You can view...

On the waterfront

The latest Architecture New Zealand magazine contains an editorial and subsequent story by editor John Walsh on Auckland's plans (or sur...

Our Home of the Year finalists

Sorry about the silence, everyone. We've been flat out preparing our 2009 Home of the Year issue. Which brings us to the point of today...

Urban environments

Our latest issue features a number of different views on how to live in urban environments. High land prices and the understandable desire t...

New York's street revolution

There's a really interesting article on New York magazine's website about the city's transport commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan,...

The big donation

Thanks to everyone who turned up to the Architectural Open Homes day run by the Auckland Architecture Association last Sunday. We couldn...

Architectural Open Homes

Those of you who are in Auckland this weekend might want to check out an event being run by the Auckland Architecture Association on Sunday ...

Moooi at Milan

A small clarification from our latest issue: The 'Blow Away' vase we featured in our Milan coverage was by front for Moooi, not Nika...

Mokum blogs HOME

A little shout-out to our friends at Mokum Textiles, the Sydney design studio with big New Zealand connections. They've made mention of ...

City Bach

More cleverness from our new issue: David Melling's City Bach, a tiny home in city-fringe Wellington with a big heart and, more importan...

Our new cover

Our latest cover, some people have been saying with surprise, features people. And it's true! We did this partly because when we looked ...

Vulcano Redesign competition

Last night we had a function at Auckland's Studio Italia to celebrate the announcement of the winner of our Redesign competition, in whi...