Urbis - Luxury - Issue 47 on sale now!

In store now, the December issue of Urbis. Hamish Keith and Tommy Honey write about luxury, and New Zealand’s top art photographers present their personal takes. Brilliant new houses. New Zealand Fashion Week’s best offsite spaces. And the sensuous architecture of Zaha Hadid. All in the latest luxurious issue of Urbis.

See Through

A timber house in Kaipara bridges ideologies and hilltops.

Hunkered down into its watchful stance across Lake Ototoa, Brian and Brigitte Richards’ Sheerwater House is aptly named, fulfilling any of the descriptors for the first part of its title in my desktop thesaurus –...

City Lights

Perched on a tight urban site in central Melbourne, this stone-clad house by BE ARCHITECTURE has flipped expectations in the creation of a light-filled retreat.

The benefit of city living is that you are in the middle of everything. The disadvantage of city...

Treehauses

What adult doesn’t remember a real or imagined treehouse? A dreamy escape from the mundane world where high in leafy, green branches one looks up to the sky and down on the earth. Perhaps such fantasies connect us to our simian forebears who built shelters in...

Who's the Boss?

In a bold move for these bearish times (and especially so with the world luxury index losing approximately a third of its value from its peak in the last year), Hugo Boss recently opened the doors to its first New Zealand flagship store in Auckland’s Newmarket....