Local studio Crosson Architects used dark-coloured concrete to help the circular Te Pae lifeguard tower blend in with its setting on a remote black-sand beach near Auckland, New Zealand. More about Crosson Architects creates stealthy lifeguard tower on remote New Zealand beach
Cheshire Architects used local Kiwi materials and craftwork for the interiors of this hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. More about Cheshire Architects uses local materials to create The Hotel Britomart in Auckland
William Tozer Associates has completed an extension to a house in Auckland, comprising a series of blocks clad in wooden shingles and vertical boards that enhance the connection with various gardens and decked terraces. More about Gardens and terraces slot around timber-clad extensions to Auckland house
In our next exclusive movie from this year's World Architecture Festival, Grant Bailey of Isthmus explains how the Auckland firm's award-winning Kopupaka Reserve was informed by local Maori culture. More about World Landscape of the Year 2016 is "about respect for water" says landscape architect Grant Bailey
Green aluminium panels cover the facade of this contemporary art gallery in Auckland, New Zealand, where a ceiling shaped like a gramophone horn funnels in light from an opening in the roof (+ slideshow). More about Auckland art gallery by Mitchell and Stout Architects features an aluminium-plated facade
This black-stained timber house in Auckland, New Zealand, by local studio Monk Mackenzie features a gridded plywood screen that allows filtered light to enter the interior (+ slideshow). More about Waiatarua House by Monk Mackenzie incorporates a wooden lattice
The two intersecting roofs of the Giraffe House at Auckland Zoo in New Zealand were designed to comfortably accommodate both its long-necked inhabitants and their human keepers (+ slideshow). More about Monk Mackenzie and Glamuzina Patterson create angular giraffe shelter at Auckland Zoo
Movie: in this exclusive interview Australian architect Richard Francis-Jones explains the importance of local materials at Auckland Art Gallery, which was crowned World Building of the Year at World Architecture Festival in Singapore earlier this month. More about "We wanted to make a building that is embedded in New Zealand culture"
World Architecture Festival 2013: the Auckland Art Gallery by Australian studio Frances-Jones Morehen Thorp has been awarded World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore. More about Auckland Art Gallery wins World Building of the Year 2013
Architectural collective OH.NO.SUMO have tucked a miniature cinema into the steps of a building on a busy street in Auckland, New Zealand. More about Stairway Cinema by OH.NO.SUMO
New Zealand architects Gascoigne Associates have completed this Japanese restaurant lined with wooden slats in Auckland, New Zealand. More about Cocoro by Gascoigne Associates
Architects Denton Corker Marshall have won a competition to design the Te Wero Bridge in Auckland, New Zealand. More about Te Wero Bridge by Denton Corker Marshall