The night before this interview, Ron Sang the architect and book publisher cooked dinner.

Chicken, mushrooms and snowpeas, pushed around the pan in the kitchen next to the paintings by Hotere, Binney and Smither. This is a house, not a white-walled gal...

  Completed over 40 years ago, this house reflects the fruitful collaboration between Sang Architects and the original owner, internationally renowned photographer Brian Brake. Structurally ambitious, with influences from the Far East, the house is deft...

  Altering a house that has stacked up so many prestigious architectural awards might have phased many a design devotee. But when James Peters of DedeCe Design and his partner Matthew Muir took on the challenge of updating the much-revered Brian Brake h...