Wedged into a cliffside beside the wild harbour of Wellington’s Eastern Bays, this year’s Home of the Year winner by Stevens Lawson Architects is a masterly object full of sculpture and craftsmanship, grandeur and human scale.

Home of the Decade (2015—2025) winning firm RTA Studio has refined a Southern language of gables and barn-like forms into a coveted residential style that is equally at home in the Alps as it is in the inner city.

Tucked into the expansive alpine landscape outside Arrowtown, this home takes its cues from the rugged vernacular of Central Otago, sharpened with a distinctly contemporary edge.

An urban treehouse in the heart of Auckland, this project reimagines how architecture can engage with nature in a dense urban setting.

A sophisticated, elegant, and entirely relaxing gem that shines above Waiheke Island.

This home on Kāpiti Coast knows its place, not just as a shelter for its people but as a small part of a much wider whole.

Perched high on a Titirangi hillside with sweeping views from the Waitākere Ranges to the Auckland City skyline, this modest home carries a larger architectural intent.

A much-loved beachfront bach in Whangaparāoa is redesigned as a refined coastal home.

Occupying a remarkable site above Leigh, this house by Crosson Architects approaches the landscape with admirable restraint.

In an otherwise flat paddock, this industrial-seeming house by Ponting Fitzgerald Architects presents a wonderfully simple and sculptural response to both site and client.

Scandinavian aesthetics meet antipodean views in a South Island home an architectural designer conceived for herself.

This contemporary family home presents as two cubes, seemingly tumbling down a sloping site before meeting a rock plinth at street level.

Mid-century with a modern interpretation, this family home just outside of Whangarei is a jewel-box on an expansive country site.

Sinuous and sculptural, the 2025 City Home of the Year makes the most of tight site in Mount Maunganui.

The 2025 Home of the Year overall winner, Bunker House by Chris Tate, blends sculpture and architecture in a daring addition to a very public site.

Named Small Home of the Year 2025, Kākā Pod by Rafe Maclean Architects is a sliver of whimsy and light-filled bliss in an unlikely corner of a suburban site in Wānaka.

Complexities that only a New Zealand topography can conjure; a dedication to treading lightly on the land, now and for years to come; and a setting deserving of such single-mindedness — these are the elements that combine to make real the vision that became Moonlight Tui Compound.

Designed as an urban oasis — a calming retreat from the pace of a busy life — this intricately detailed addition to a heritage villa has improved with the passage of time.

A tenacious build process for an intensely complicated coastal site has pushed this house into uncharted territory.

Winner of the Home of the Year a decade ago, this house — for and by RTA’s founder Richard Naish and his family — continues to perform and amaze through a combination of clever architecture and planning.

The 2024 Small Home of the Year covers a footprint of just 37 square metres yet its spaces feel voluminous and welcoming.

A masterful transformation of a 1920s bungalow, rooted in the Arts and Crafts tradition, into a generous modern family home, this expressive renovation captures the elegance of its architectural period while meeting the evolving needs of its occupants.

This experimental sculptural home on the hills above Sumner in Christchurch epitomises the fusion of artistry and functionality in an urban dwelling.

On an east-facing clifftop an hour north of Auckland, this home is the culmination of a long-held dream for its owner.

A mature and restrained response to an awe-inspiring location. The architect has combined a wide range of influences — from Sri Lankan to her own, impressive international career — to achieve a quintessentially local response to site, context, and history.

Reclaiming an old DOC carpark on the shore of Lake Hawea, this holiday home that opens to the sky is designed around a farming family’s get-togethers in the South Island.

A hilltop home in Dunedin becomes a gallery of sorts, its form an object of art itself – one of warmth, playfulness, and urbanity.

In central Auckland, BVA Studio designs an elegant addition defined by a cascading, flowering green roof that meets copper, dark-stained timber and concrete.

A mature and restrained response to an awe-inspiring location. The architect has combined a wide range of influences — from Sri Lankan to her own, impressive international career — to achieve a quintessentially local response to site, context, and history.

Within a suburban and semi-alpine context that is prone to landslides, this home stands out by its aesthetics and passive ethos.

A relatively modest-scale courtyard home that’s both welcoming and well connected to its sloping site. It takes craft and materiality serious

The repurposing of a church and its hall into an active, quirky, fun family home that respects its history yet offers something new.