A bridge linking Auckland's Parnell Baths to the waterfront has won a prestigious international award.

California's Sunset Strip, known for its giant billboards, celebrity hot spots and rock clubs, is getting a makeover.

A rustic-style timber-clad high rise apartment block, has won a design competition to showcase more intensive Auckland building styles.

Think your home is a castle? This boat-themed creation on Auckland's North Shore has been crowned top new home in the upper North Island.

Hate apartment blocks? Then take a closer look at these five, shortlisted in a competition to win over Aucklanders sceptical about their city's intensification.

A French urban planning expert is in New Zealand this week, courtesy of think-tank the New Zealand Initiative.

The eastern Chinese city of Suzhou is joining a national rush for the sky with what's slated to become the world's third-tallest building.

Seven New Zealand buildings are shortlisted for awards in the World Architecture Festival in Singapore, held from October 1 to 3.

It might be the New Zealand dream but for many Aucklanders, owning their own home has become a chimera thanks to high prices and few affordable houses.

It might be the New Zealand dream but for many Aucklanders, owning their own home has become a chimera thanks to high prices and few affordable houses. The Auckland Council has plans more intensification and more green fields expansion, but others are already finding their only positive solutions to the city’s housing crisis.

Tony Gapes is set to take back control of New Zealand's most intensive affordable housing project after receivers last night confirmed the property developer has settled a company debt.

Seven new Auckland and Northland buildings won design awards last night, picked for their outstanding characteristics.

A new lobby group is being formed to play a role in the development of the Auckland waterfront where public spaces are coming under pressure from private interests.

Queenstown's snow-sprinkled peaks and pristine lakes are being recreated in a multi-billion dollar development in mainland China.

When one of the audience asked British architecture critic Jonathan Glancey what he thought of Auckland's Unitary Plan, he pointed to the example of Barcelona.

A small Kiwi-designed bach has won a prestigious award at a ceremony dubbed the "Oscars of architecture" in New York.

The winners of the 2014 New Zealand Architecture Awards.

New Zealand architects, including Auckland's much-awarded Andrew Patterson, have been critical of Australian practices winning big jobs here.

Garrett Kelleher, the Irish developer trying to restore Chicago's status as home to the tallest building in the US, has one last chance to keep his dream alive.

Shipping containers are being put to new uses in Auckland, as builders make inroads on two prominent city sites.

A New Zealand designer is flushed with success after his bizarre-looking public loos were voted the third best place on earth to spend a penny.

Corstorphine House's history of accommodating royals and Hollywood actors may help attract global "A-listers" when the Dunedin property goes on the market for $3.8m.

Plans for a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin have been scrapped and the developers' partnership with the council has descended into acrimony.

Architecture students have imagined how Auckland will look sporting a new super-brothel, and Wellington's future if sea levels rise.