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Home of the Decade

The Award

To mark the 30th anniversary of Home of the Year, in 2025 we are also awarding a single home the prestigious title of
Home of the Decade.

All winners of Home of the Year between 2015 and 2025 are automatically entered as finalists.

The award is also open to wildcard nominations, and we invite nominations from architects, interior designers, homeowners, builders, photographers, makers, and anyone else who has been inspired by a single home that was designed and built in New Zealand in the last decade. 

Nomination Form

You may nominate any home that was designed and built between 2015 and 2025 that you feel presents an enduring and inspiring contribution to New Zealand architecture. 

Nominations close at 5pm, Friday, 6 December 2024.

For each project, if you are self-nominating, where possible please include:

  • A maximum of 200 words describing the project
  • A maximum of 12 high-resolution photos, including a variety of interior and exterior aspects with range of perspectives (please send these as individual images rather than a PDF of images for ease of viewing).
  • A floor plan and site plan if available
  • Please ensure that the designer/s and homeowner/s of the nominated project have consented to the home being nominated, and understand and have read the terms and conditions below, specifically including those relating to judging, media coverage and photography/filming
 
If you are nominating a project that was not designed by you/your firm, please include any relevant you have, including link/s to a URL where the project is documented. If this is not possible, please contact our awards convenor Federico Monsalve at: federico@homemagazine.nz or Clare Chapman at clare.chapman@homemagazine.nz
Please provide the name of the practice that designed the home, or the name of the individual architect if the practice name is no longer applicable.
Click or drag files to this area to upload. You can upload up to 12 files.
Click or drag files to this area to upload. You can upload up to 5 files.
  1. Instructions on how to enter form part of the terms and conditions of entry. Entry into the Home of the Decade promotion is deemed acceptance of these terms and conditions.
  2. The award is open to anyone with a project that has been designed and built between 2015 and 2025 in New Zealand.
  3. Entries to the award open on Tuesday,  24 September 2024 and must be received by 5pm Friday, 6 December 2024 (the Promotional Period).
  4. By entering this award, entrants confirm and warrant that they have the necessary consents and permissions to publish the project in a mainstream publication.
  5. Entrants agree that any related publicity and/or promotional activity, including television coverage, belong to Nook Publishing Limited.
  6. Nook Publishing reserves the right to photograph, film and/or otherwise make recordings of all entries, entered projects and the judging processes, including architects, designers, and any associated parties for promotional purposes and related projects. The ensuing copyright will rest with Nook Publishing (or its contributors) without any claim to compensation from the entrant or any other featured person.
  7. Homeowners’ names and addresses relevant to submitted projects should be supplied at the time of entry but may be withheld from publication, promotions, and publicity at the homeowners’ request, where this request has been provided to Nook Publishing in writing.
  8. Collaborative projects should be acknowledged on the entry form by listing all parties involved. Entrants agree to seek the consent of all design parties and homeowners involved prior to submitting an entry.
  9. Neither Nook Publishing nor any other entity associated with this award will be responsible for any late, lost, misdirected, or incorrectly submitted nominations.
  10. The first round of judging will take place in February 2025 to determine a shortlist of projects to visit and will include a review of the completed entry forms, along with photographs and text supplied with your entry.
  11. Final judging will take place in Q1 2025 and may include a visit in person by the judging panel. 
  12. The judges of the award will be selected by Nook Publishing in its sole discretion.
  13. All decisions made by the judges and/or Nook Publishing are final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
  14. The winner will feature in the magazine’s April/May 2025 issue, and in other Nook Publishing publications and issues throughout 2025.
  15. Winners will be notified by correspondence to the respective email or phone number submitted with entry.
  16. As a condition of participating in the award, the winner indemnifies Nook Publishing, all organisers, sponsors, and all other persons and organisations associated in any way with this award against all claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including costs on a solicitor-client basis) which the winner may incur arising out of their participation in the award and/or participating in the prize, howsoever caused.
  17. Nook Publishing collects and holds personal information provided by entrants for the purposes of this award and for future promotional purposes. Failure to provide requested personal information may disqualify a person from being able to receive the award. All personal information provided by entrants will be held by Nook Publishing. Under the Privacy Act 1993, entrants have the right to access and request correction of any such personal information, and may do so by sending an email to clare.chapman@homemagazine.nz.