Ed and Barbara Parker have been here before. The couple were featured by USM back in 2015 when they first moved into their Brooklyn apartment. However, as Barbara explains: “We didn’t have kids back then, so this is different now.”

They may be architects now, but it was journalism that originally brought Noam Dvir and Daniel Rauchwerger together. The couple met and fell in love while working on the same newspaper in Tel Aviv, where Noam was architecture correspondent and Daniel on the arts desk. However, changes in the industry were afoot.

After meticulously restoring a large mid-century house designed by architect Sir Miles Warren in a leafy Christchurch suburb of the South Island of New Zealand, interior designer Kristina Pickford and her husband Michael decided to move. Their choice of home is the antithesis of the former residence, instead of a house, it’s an apartment, instead of the south island, they’ve opted for the north, and in place of land comes an inner city plot with no outside space. The surprising move takes them to a beautiful apartment in the historic Dilworth building in the heart of downtown Auckland, just minutes from the waterfront.