Small Home of the Year | City Home of the Year | Coastal Home of the Year | Rural Home of the Year | Multi-Unit Home of the Year | Green Home of the Year | Alt & Reno Home of the Year | Readers’ Choice Award
Home of the Year is an annual programme that celebrates the country’s best new homes, and comes with a $10K prize for the overall winner.
Home of the Year is New Zealand’s highly regarded award for residential architecture, with categories to celebrate the best City Home of the Year, Small Home of the Year, Coastal Home of the Year, Rural Home of the Year, Green Home of the Year, Alt & Reno Home of the Year, and Multi-Unit Home of the Year, each of which recognises the specific nuances of architecture in different contexts.
Every category winner receives a video package worth $10,000 and an extensive media campaign, while the overall winner also receives a $10,000 cash prize.
The overall Home of the Year winner is awarded to a home that captures a particular cultural and architectural moment — a design that resonates beyond its physical form. At its core, it is the distillation of an idea: the alignment of a client’s aspirations with an architect’s vision, resolved into a piece of architecture that speaks both to its time and to something enduring.
Entries open for Home of the Year 2027
Entries close for Home of the Year 2027; preliminary judging begins
Judging commences; finalists announced. Readers’ Choice Award voting opens
Awards evening. HOME’s Home of the Year issue is released with all winners published in this issue.
Nicholas is a founding director of Stevens Lawson Architects, which received the NZIA Gold Medal for Architecture in 2022. Stevens Lawson work across the spectrum of architecture, from bespoke houses to multi-residential projects, to schools and public buildings. Their design for HomeGround won the John Scott award for Public Architecture in 2023. They have won 30 NZIA National Awards and Home of the Year five times.
Natasha is a registered architect and urban designer. With a paassion for homes and cities, she has carved out a career that lets her work at both scales. In the UK, she worked on a roughly 600-home development on a former colliery site, before completing a Master of Urban Design at the University of Auckland. In 2015, she founded MAUD, an award-winning practice dedicated to creating considered spaces that embody a sense of ease and liveability.
Editor-in-chief of Architecture Aotearoa and a long-standing contributor about New Zealand’s design and architecture community, Federico is the long-standing convenor of Home of the Year, and a regular judge at various local and overseas awards, including Interior of the Year and the World Architecture Festival.
The award celebrates the country’s best new homes, and comes with a $10,000 prize for the Home of the Year. The categories for Small Home of the Year, City Home of the Year, Rural Home of the Year, Coastal Home of the Year, Green Home of the Year, Alt & Reno Home of the Year, and Multi-Unit Home of the Year, meanwhile, recognise the specific nuances of architecture in different contexts. Each project entered is automatically considered for Home of the Year.
You may enter a category, but you don’t have to. We’re looking for the seven strongest projects across the categories, while every project entered is automatically considered for Home of the Year, whether or not it is entered into a category.
Home of the Year is proudly powered by Peugeot, and made possible thanks to the support of our valued partners Dulux, PeterFell, Nu Wall and Gaggenau.
Celebrating the vision, ingenuity and ambition of New Zealand’s finest residential architecture, Home of the Year brings together partners who share a deep appreciation for exceptional design, innovation and craftsmanship. Their collective commitment to the programme allows us to recognise and champion the people and projects shaping the evolution of architecture in Aotearoa, bringing their extraordinary work to a wider audience.
Explore the exceptional homes celebrated throughout the history of Home of the Year, recognising the creativity, innovation and architectural ambition of New Zealand’s leading architects and designers. From remarkable coastal retreats and rural residences to considered urban dwellings and small homes that make an extraordinary impact, each award-winning project offers a unique perspective on contemporary residential architecture in Aotearoa. Discover the stories, ideas and people behind these celebrated homes, and watch our cinematic video features, which take you inside each category-winning project to explore the architecture, materiality and design thinking that set it apart.
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