This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Home of the Year Awards – a huge milestone for this widely celebrated programme that explores exceptional New Zealand residential architecture.
Below are the 22 incredible Home of the Year 2025 finalists. As you are reading this, the Home of the Year judges, Paul Clarke of Studio2 Architects, Eva Nash of Rogan Nash Architects, and architecture critic Federico Monsalve, are travelling around New Zealand visiting every finalist to decide on a winner for each of the categories, as well as the overall winner – the project that will be named the 2025 Home of the Year, and be awarded a $10,000 cash prize.
The winning projects will feature in the April/May 2025 issue of HOME, and across all HOME channels, with the winners announced at an exclusive awards evening in Auckland in late March.
Peruse the finalists below, and let us know below which project you believe should receive the 2025 Home of the Year Readers’ Choice Award.
Onetangi Cliff House
Herbst Architects
Black Beech House
Bonnifait + Associates Architects
60×6 House
Jose Gutierrez
Tākapu
Daniel Marshall Architects
Lake Hayes Home
Ben Hudson Architects
Sandtrap
Lloyd Hartley Architects
Berowald Place
Young+ Richards+
Grace
Stevens Lawson Architects
Mills Road House
Rafe Maclean Architects
Garden Wall House
Vaughn McQuarrie
JP House
Bolig Architecture
Moonlight Tui Compound
Team Green Architects
Bunker House
Chris Tate Architecture
White Heron House
Jose Gutierrez
Kaka Pod
Rafe Maclean Architects
Rocky Ridge
Fabric
Light Catcher
Jose Gutierrez
Manaaki
Marutūāhu-Ockham Group
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