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.

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Butterfly wings

A small annex to Sir Miles Warren’s RC Ballantyne House in Christchurch allowed Phil Redmond of PRau a chance to imagine a long-lost character from the iconic architect’s canon.

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A home for hosting

Perched on a cliff in Auckland’s Herne Bay, an expansive retreat for gathering, sharing, and celebrating sought to be both bold and unassuming.

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Poetic reimagining

A Vernon Brown classic in the heart of Remuera has been refurbished to preserve a piece of architectural history, with the interiors designed by its owner and architect, Moshin Mussa of RTA Studio.

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Pure form

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

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Rural craft

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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A Queenstown family home wins Green Home of the Year

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.

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Turning point

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.

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Coastal settlement

Several years in the making, this Ōakura home sits softly on its beachfront site, fortified against the elements and timelessly detailed.

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Lighthouse

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.

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Dune gazer

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.

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State of play

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.

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Anchorage on Maori Hill

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.

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In the Coromandel, a home with a humble profile and a thoughtful design makes the most of a stunning location.

This sculptural Northland bach is a perfect north arrow on a remote farm high above the sea.

Built with awe-inspiring attention to detail, this Arrowtown home is a fresh interpretation of a familiar Otago rural vernacular.

Part gallery, part sculptural abode, this award-winning home above Takapuna Beach is surprisingly secluded.

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

With the sun on its bow and the community at its stern, this is a house in which the elements are always front of mind.

A mature and restrained response to an awe-inspiring location. The architect has combined a wide range of influences — from Sri Lankan to,

This Auckland home delightfully reimagines city living, marrying privacy with insightful and intimate layers of connection.

Feb – Mar 2025  — Issue #516