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London-based Italian artist Martino Gamper @martinogamper has a history of blurring the lines between design and visual art. A major solo exhibition of his work, Endgrained, is on now at Objectspace in Tāmaki Makaurau @objectspace .⁠ ⁠ Here, Gamper presents new objects and furniture, mainly chairs and tables, reconfiguring the gallery space into a hub for interaction. Visitors are encouraged to use the furniture for work, rest or play.⁠ ⁠ “His furniture practice is world-renowned not only for its singular design,” says director Kim Paton, “but for the resourcefulness and craftsmanship he brings to his work that imbues the objects of daily life with a sense of care and purpose.”⁠ ⁠ See more in our current issue Here 36 on sale now – read or order via the link in our profile! ⁠ ⁠ Photograph @samuel_hartnett ⁠ ⁠ #design⁠ #furniture⁠ #exhibition⁠ #art

This off-grid Lavericks Bay retreat by Studio Now @studionownz clings to the edge on a 970-hectare sheep and beef farm. The deck’s timber balustrade picks up on the agricultural vernacular, its slatted, gappy planks arranged like fence palings that let air and views through. ⁠ ⁠ “We stepped the bath down onto the lower deck, so sitting in it you’re right on the edge, but from the bed your view isn’t blocked by the tub,” explains designer Ben Comber.⁠ ⁠ Inside, the design prioritises natural materials: floors and ceilings are beech, walls are plywood, and there’s not a strip of plasterboard in sight.⁠ ⁠ This cabin features on the cover of our current issue Here 36 on sale now – read or order via the link in our profile! ⁠ ⁠ Photograph @mickeyross_ ⁠ ⁠ #architecture⁠ #offgrid⁠ #cabin⁠ #outdoorbath

Introducing Heath, Jessie, Dajiang and Rebecca. Meet your speakers for the 2026 instalment of Design Lives Here. Tickets going. Heath Lowe – Executive Design Director and a founding partner of Special New Zealand @special_group @heath.lowe Jessie Wong – The eponymous founder and owner of leather goods label Yu Mei @yumeibrand @jessieyumeiwong Dajiang (DJ) Tai 台大江 – Director of Cheshire Architects @cheshirearchitects @dajiangtai Rebecca Smidt – Restaurateur behind Cazador, the Cazador deli next door and San Ray @cazador_akl @cazador_deli @sanray.nz @smidtface Hear about the design objects they love and covet on Wed 10 June at Objectspace, 13 Rose Road, Ponsonby – secure your spot now at objectspace.org.nz/events. $40 with all the trimmings @blackestate @bryterlaterwines @libertybrewingnz @drinkalmighty @goodshitsoda , AND the lauded return of Cazadogs from @cazador_akl . PLUS a mystery cocktail... An @objectspace and @thisishere.nz event presented by @cemac_nz

Resource consent largely dictated this Wānaka home’s placement right at the back of its site, but Amelia Nuku @nuku.studio used the constraints to her advantage. ⁠ ⁠ While the north-facing living and kitchen spills out to a sprawling lawn through two enormous glazed sliders, the primary bedroom is tucked away in a second pavilion to the west, ideal when extended family descend. ⁠ ⁠ “That planting buffer gives privacy to the bedroom so they can be in there with their doors wide open and reading a book. Connected to the land, but disconnected from what’s going on,” says Nuku.⁠ ⁠ See more in our current issue Here 36 on sale now – read or order via the link in our profile! ⁠ ⁠ Photograph @biddirowley ⁠ ⁠ #architecture⁠ #bedroom⁠ #landscaping⁠ #garden

A generous island bench acts as a kind of command post in this reimagined Tāmaki Makaurau kitchen by Hannah Chiaroni-Clarke @ccstudio.nz .⁠ ⁠ She was respectful of the work that had gone before, riffing on an earlier renovation by architect Briar Green, which brought a gently mid-century-meets-Japanese aesthetic to the Grey Lynn villa. Cabinetry is Laminex French Cream, contained by a chunky Tasmanian blackwood frame. ⁠ ⁠ “I took quite a few cues from Briar’s work,” says Chiaroni-Clarke. “I wanted the kitchen to speak more to the extension – it didn’t need to be traditional.”⁠ ⁠ See more in our current issue Here 36 on sale now – read or order via the link in our profile! ⁠ ⁠ Photograph @david_._straight ⁠ ⁠ #architecture⁠ #renovation⁠ #kitchen⁠ #cabinetry⁠

Design Lives Here is back on 10 June 2026. We’ll introduce your speakers next week, but considering this ALWAYS sells out tickets are live now for diehard fans of the series. One much-loved object from your home. One coveted object you WANT in your home. Four speakers, a 200-strong crowd of design lovers. That’s the brief for Design Lives Here, Objectspace’s annual design event with @thisishere.nz presented by @cemac_nz . $40 bucks and covering great kōrero, natural wine, local brews and good eats. objectspace.org.nz/events @cazador_akl @blackestate @bryterlaterwines @libertybrewingnz @drinkalmighty @goodshitsoda

ENTER THE HERE AWARDS 2026!⁠ ⁠ We're calling for entries in the sixth annual Here Awards! ⁠ ⁠ We’ve always talked about loving luxury and humility in equal measure at Here – and by that we mean we’re less interested in trends, and more interested in the design.⁠ ⁠ Over the past six years, we’ve been delighted to see architects and their clients get braver, dispense with the obvious and commit to things that just make sense for them. Nowhere is that seen better than in the awards.⁠ ⁠ This year, we're delighted to welcome our 2026 rōpū: winner of Best House Aotearoa 2025, Guy Tarrant of @guytarrantarchitects ; Elspeth Gray of @robertsgrayarchitects – and here editor Simon Farrell-Green.⁠ ⁠ As with previous years, we're calling for entries in five core categories:⁠ ⁠ + New House⁠ + Reuse and Renovation⁠ + Density⁠ + Small Project⁠ + Unbuilt⁠ ⁠ Huge thanks to our returning partners @citta , @blumnewzealand and @resenecolour , all of whom have supported the awards for multiple years – it really means a lot to us – and a warm welcome back to our event partner @thehotelbritomart , part of the Collection by @tfehotels ⁠ ⁠ Enter online via the link in our profile – or check out the latest magazine for more! ⁠ ⁠ #awards⁠ #architecture⁠ #aotearoa⁠ #housing

A new carport entry porch greets visitors to this reworked 1950s beach house in Paraparaumu. “Creating the porch where you can sit down, change your shoes, wash the sand off your feet, hang things up — that made the arrival so much more functional and friendly,” says Stuart Gardyne @architecture_plus_nz .⁠ ⁠ A new exterior colour palette, meanwhile, helps to anchor the house to its heritage. Interior colours – the green walls, the red on the recovered sofas, the pink in the girls’ room, the blue in the guest room – were all drawn from hues already present in the house.⁠ ⁠ See more in our current issue Here 36 on sale now – read or order via the link in our profile! ⁠ ⁠ Photograph @simondevitt_photographer ⁠ ⁠ #architecture⁠ #beachhouse⁠ #entryporch⁠ #carport

This home by Pete Bossley @bossleyarchitects on Moturua Island steps up the land, each room on its own level. A wide gallery to the northwest acts as a kind of spine, with spaces hanging off it. ⁠ ⁠ The line of the building dances in and out depending on the size of the rooms, beneath a broad sheltering roof that is wider at the ends, with a waist in the middle and bites out of its southeastern elevation that create a series of courtyards.⁠ ⁠ Walls are mostly glass, but framed by timber so you don’t feel exposed. “It looks so simple, but it’s unforgiving – there’s nothing hidden,” says Bossley.⁠ ⁠ See more in our current issue Here 36 on sale now – read or order via the link in our profile! ⁠ ⁠ Photograph @samuel_hartnett ⁠ ⁠ #architecture⁠ #passage⁠ #corridor⁠ #timber

ARCHITECTURE FOR SALE⁠ ⁠ Town House by Christopher Beer @christopherbeerarchitect was verging on radical when it was built in 2016: designed for a young local family, it was a compact, shadowy urban form in a small, provincial Waikato town better known for established trees, wide streets and bungalows. Here, he designed a house with multi-functional spaces on a small commercial site in the centre of town.⁠ ⁠ Beer’s design took a pocket of land and created a home designed around two courtyards that subtly demarcate private and public areas. He framed the site with a solid brick wall; inside this frame, he punched three courtyards. Connecting them all is a spine, leading from front door, past bedrooms and courtyards to living spaces at the rear. It’s a delightfully layered home, which grows more private as you progress through it.⁠ ⁠ As you move through the house, it opens and closes through private and public spaces, stepping gently down the slope. Throughout, there’s a sense of retreat and calm; it’s pleasantly shadowy. Materials are limited, and robust – brick, fibre-cement and rough-sawn timber, now silvering off gracefully. ⁠ ⁠ It's for sale now with @sachaatbayleys – read more via the link in our profile. ⁠ ⁠ #architectureforsale⁠ #architecture⁠ #aotearoa⁠ #ad⁠ #paid⁠ ⁠

“The idea of building a beautiful little off-grid cabin on a spot so remote seemed extreme,” says Ben Comber @studionownz of his first visit to this Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū Banks Peninsula site. “So straight away, that challenge was really cool.”⁠ ⁠ For Comber, the concept began to form on the drive back. “The trees all had that unruly, windswept quality, and it kind of stuck with me,” he recalls. ⁠ ⁠ Inspired by their defiant silhouettes, frozen in a silent gale, the cabin took shape. “The bottom is the secure base of the tree and it tapers up to that sculptural, windswept top.” ⁠ ⁠ This project graces the cover of our current issue Here 36 on sale now – read or order via the link in our profile! ⁠ ⁠ Photograph @mickeyross_ ⁠ ⁠ #architecture⁠ #offgrid⁠ #windswept⁠ #cabin

It was to be a house for two that could expand when family descended. “So two pavilions came naturally into play,” says Amelia Nuku, director at Nuku @nuku.studio .⁠ ⁠ What’s emerged is a home calibrated to the cadence of daily life and to its Central Otago setting. The clients, fond of mid-century modern design, brought a few minimalist references into early conversations. The clean, minimalist northern face and exposed cross bracing hark back to the era's sharp lines. ⁠ ⁠ The unique roofline suits the landscape and allowed Nuku to capture one crucial view – a snapshot of Mount Roy from the living area.⁠ ⁠ See more in our current issue Here 36 on sale now – read or order via the link in our profile! ⁠ ⁠ Photograph @biddirowley ⁠ ⁠ #architecture⁠ #mountain⁠ #roofline⁠ #field