On an elevated site in an exclusive rural enclave in Coatesville, JCA Studio has devised a home for two: a collection of abstract forms overlooking and nestled within an idyllic swathe of hill country.
The year's best bathroom is part of an extensive renovation that reflects on the family’s long history with this site on a quiet, leafy street in Auckland’s Herne Bay; a very personal sanctuary where memory and materiality converge.
A Hawke’s Bay family set out to transform their Bluff Hill cottage into boutique accommodation, but, as the design progressed, they fell in love with it and decided to make it their permanent home.
The blue palette, carried seamlessly from interior to exterior, ultimately reads as its own neutral, while spatial reconfigurations throughout the home reclaim under-utilised volumes and deepen connections to the landscape and coastal aspect.
Emerging from the Te Ārai dunes as two rammed earth pavilions offset to reconcile sun path and sea view, the Double Courtyard House responds to its landscape by, literally, being made from it.
Utilitarian forms and understated elegance collide in this rural Queenstown Lakes home by RTA Studio.
In the heart of Auckland’s wine country, this home by and for an architect explores an unusual premise: an architectural home delivered on a modest budget in partnership with a group home builder — and the result is intriguing.
Geometrically crisp against an organic backdrop, this Wānaka home is a confident expression; the result of clients who knew what they wanted and an architect who added the visual poetry.
The blue palette, carried seamlessly from interior to exterior, ultimately reads as its own neutral, while spatial reconfigurations throughout the home reclaim under-utilised volumes and deepen connections to the landscape and coastal aspect.
Sited between three significant heritage buildings in Parnell, One Saint Stephens earns its place in this category through both the quality of the interior life it creates and the statement it makes from the street.
Perched above a cliff edge, where parkland softens into water, this reworked 1980s home is a careful act of continuation.
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.
Geometrically crisp against an organic backdrop, this Wānaka home is a confident expression; the result of clients who knew what they wanted and an architect who added the visual poetry.
On the banks of the Avon, PRau's material choreography turns a private residence into a study in considered restraint.
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.
There is a certain composure to the work of Stevens Lawson Architects — an ongoing dialogue of ideas that seems to flow between projects. Here, on a ridgeline at the meeting point of Auckland suburbs Glen Innes and Glendowie, that conversation finds expression in an unexpected setting.
A much-loved beachfront bach in Whangaparāoa is redesigned as a refined coastal home.
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.
