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Perched atop an escarpment overlooking Whangārei’s town basin, this home is the embodiment of the owners’ vision, the architects’ knowledge, and the builder’s expertise.
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The overall winner and Home of the Year 2024 is Boathouse Bay by Crosson Architects, an exemplary model of multi-unit design embodying the quest for community living through a marriage of architecture, landscape, and master-planning.
The overall winner and Home of the Year 2024 is Boathouse Bay by Crosson Architects, an exemplary model of multi-unit design embodying the quest for community living through a marriage of architecture, landscape, and master-planning.
Perched atop an escarpment overlooking Whangārei’s town basin, this home is the embodiment of the owners’ vision, the architects’ knowledge, and the builder’s expertise.
The sinuous lines of Tāmaki Makaurau’s original foreshore are at the heart of Crosson Architects’ latest project: the Elysian luxury apartment building in Auckland’s Parnell.
Can great architecture and affordable housing coexist? In this case, absolutely.
Just before the turn of last century, two brothers built a pair of brick villas side by side in the Christchurch suburb of St Albans.
The overall winner and Home of the Year 2024 is Boathouse Bay by Crosson Architects, an exemplary model of multi-unit design embodying the quest for community living through a marriage of architecture, landscape, and master-planning.
The 2024 Small Home of the Year covers a footprint of just 37 square metres yet its spaces feel voluminous and welcoming.
Moving between sweeping curves and overt gestures of permanence, this Mangawhai home opens up and reaches out to the estuarine landscape beyond, welcoming visitors and the view with a dynamic spatial interplay.
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.
A cornerstone of Auckland City’s Avondale rejuvenation, the 2024 Multi-Unit Home of the Year stands as a gateway project that is instantly recognisable and a symbol of rejuvenation, not gentrification, within a city belt setting.
The 2024 Green Home of the Year is a joyful little home that makes the most of a sunny spot in the backyard, designed with equal measures of economy and sustainability.
As far as creative solutions go, this one, the 2024 Readers’ Choice Home of the Year, is borderline miraculous.
This experimental sculptural home on the hills above Sumner in Christchurch epitomises the fusion of artistry and functionality in an urban dwelling.
In an area of Mount Maunganui where the divide between urban and coastal collides in a streetscape of varying design languages, ata interpreted his clients’ brief with a creative approach.
This lake house by Rogan Nash Architects can function as both a retirement spot for a couple and a welcoming holiday home for several children and their extended families.
A study on infill housing, this Sandringham home designed for a couple returning to New Zealand from California maximises a small footprint to deliver spaces of versatility within a simple but intriguing façade.
Jose Gutierrez Architects transformed this character villa, located on a typical Grey Lynn street, into a contemporary oasis — a place that moves between lightness and solidity with a fluid grace.
RTA Studio uses three boat-shed forms — at some points staggered and at others stitched into one — to create a flexible, multigenerational, lake-front, holiday house that succeeds on many levels.
High above Waiheke Island’s Owhanake Bay, this pool pavilion speaks to the architectural nuances of the main home, while introducing its own distinct identity — a restorative space intuitively connected with land and sea.
In one of the most distinctive coastal environments in New Zealand, this large family home takes its cues from the dramatic beauty of the sound it overlooks, and follows the natural contours of the land to embrace the setting and disappear into the bush-covered hillside.
On a steep and challenging hillside site surrounded by native bush, this Piha home was envisioned as a weekend getaway.
This two-storey Beach Haven home of sharp geometries is designed around a trapezoidal plunge pool, over which the upper level is cantilevered.
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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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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.
