It’s a familiar story: when youngsters enter the picture, the excitement of the big-city dream tends to pale. Childhood memories of beaches, open space and

Located on a compact infill section, the 180-square-metre house is an example of what suburban living in Auckland’s future can be. With smaller sites, the

This family house sums up Box™ in many ways. Discrete, elegant, not too big and full of modernist flavor. The owner, a graduate architect himself

Ten years after they’d read an article about Box™, Barbara Ala’alatoa and Hēmi Dale finally decided to sign up with them on the dotted line.

There comes an age and a stage in life, usually when Empty Nest syndrome hits, that a radical reinvention is called for. The clients of

The design creates year-round shelter from the local winds, while the low-slung shape of the house keeps it sitting unobtrusively within the landscape on top

The house has 2 bedrooms, with a further master ‘suite’ at the opposite end of the house, lording over the views to the west. The

Box has designed a concept using four rectangular modules positioned to enclose a central atrium – a design that could also be configured to form

Low-slung in the landscape, this container-like home initially gives little away. Beneath wide skies on a pocket of hilly land near Whareora, a 15-minute drive

This weatherboard bungalow on a generous site in the Auckland suburb of Mt Eden was typical of its time and painted pretty pastel blue. Small

Robyn and Leighton Langley felt conflicting emotions as they stood road-side on a wet and somewhat blustery day and watched a gigantic mechanical arm lift

This house was a wonderful solution to a sloping site with tight boundaries but a wonderful view back over Auckland Harbour Bridge. The house replaced