Home of the Year
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Mid-century with a modern interpretation, this family home just outside of Whangarei is a jewel-box on an expansive country site.
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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. It pushes boundaries of materiality and engineering while staying true to its vision, despite a 14-year design and build process.
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. It pushes boundaries of materiality and engineering while staying true to its vision, despite a 14-year design and build process.
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.
Each of these compact dwellings is designed to fit into the same space as the quintessential Kiwi double garage. They’re affordable, replicable models for a new housing typology.
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.
Seizing the opportunity provided by an empty nest, the owners of this site at Bishops Hill near Matakana sought to create a cosy, relaxed lifestyle in a semi-rural setting with this well-placed, sheltered home near the river.
Several years in the making, this Ōakura home sits softly on its beachfront site, fortified against the elements and timelessly detailed.
Given a compact platform on a narrow strip of land, Grant Harris of HB Architecture has created this modern yet honest Northland holiday house that responds to its beachfront site.
It is not hard to understand why the owners of this property in the Northland settlement of Mangawhai decided to make their holiday bach a permanent situation.
When architect Matt Robinson and his wife Penny Thomson purchased their modest 75m² state house — once dismissed as a ‘shabby shocker’ — they saw beyond the catchphrase to the home’s solid bones and prime location on an enviable Westmere section, transforming it into something undeniably special.
This family home designed by Mason & Wales is an elegant, contemporary addition to the heart of Dunedin and was influenced by luxury yachting and its enviable context.
When a family begins to outgrow a much-loved home in an ideal location, they often have to make a choice: move or remodel? For the owners of this Mt Eden home, the solution was a little more fun: a multifunctional pool pavilion.
While paying respect to the juxtaposition of old and new and the wide-spanning views beyond, Karen Kelly Interior Design has added character and depth to this Queenstown holiday home through natural materials and restrained splashes of colour.
When Brad Pearless was engaged to design a home for a large, multigenerational family on a subdivided piece of land in Waterview, Auckland, the aim was to create a sustainable, energy efficient building that would stand the test of time.
An expansive renovation realigns this Northland house to the sea with a contemporary material palette that feels right at home.
There’s a poetic rigour to this house, which moves effortlessly between transparency and solidity. On a site overlooking the Tukituki valley and the craggy summit of Te Mata Peak, it is irrevocably immersed in the moods of the mountains.
Layered like the tiers of a decadent cake, this beach house on an exposed corner site is a striking blend of coastal chic and spatial dynamism.
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Entries to Home of the Year 2024 are now open.
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.
Click here to enter, or to find out more about the 2024 awards programme.
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