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.

Jerome Partington, one of the people behind New Zealand’s most revolutionary building hopes the design will be a greenprint for more of the same countrywide, writes Alan Perrott.

Dionne Christian gets a fascinating insight into our city's history.

On Friday night Nat Cheshire won two gold pins in the spatial discipline of the Best Design Awards.

Herald cartoonist Rod Emmerson experiences the jewel in the crown of a luxury Azamara Club Cruise through the Greek Isles and Turkish Coast, in the ruins of Ephesus.

Auckland's Jessop Architects has developed plans for passive houses with extremely low energy consumption.

The earthquake-damaged Christchurch Town Hall has been saved after city councillors unanimously voted in favour of a $127.5 million full restoration plan today.

The creative juices must have been flowing when a fruit drink magnate's celebrated new house was on the drawing board.

A giraffe house, art gallery, Grey Lynn shops and apartment building are in the running for a top international architectural award.

New houses built in seaside areas north of Auckland scooped two architectural awards last night.

There's a tantalising connection between Jazz Age performance legend Josephine Baker and the Old Folks Ass.

The woman behind a controversial $100 million waterfront hotel bid in Dunedin says she will compromise to secure a deal with the Dunedin City Council.

Paterson parlayed a childhood passion into a successful career, and the awards just keep on coming.

The company bidding to build a $100 million waterfront hotel in Dunedin is taking its fight to the Environment Court.

Childhood friends Dominic Glamuzina and Aaron Paterson, of Glamuzina Paterson Architects, were hailed as "emerging talent" when two of the four award-winning projects in the Housing category of the 2013 New Zealand Architecture Awards were theirs.

It's a $15 million renovation, an award-winning heritage vision and a blueprint for urban renewal in downtown Auckland. And judging from the all-day crowds, it's still the place to be seen drinking coffee.

Controversial plans for a $100 million 27-level Dunedin hotel have been knocked back.