Home of the Year 2025: The finalists

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

Pocket Houses

Dorrington Atcheson Architects

Seymour House

Barrie Connor Design & Jones Architects

Whareroa House

Dorrington Atcheson Architects

Light Catcher

Jose Gutierrez

Bungalow 2.0

Studio Now

Manaaki

Marutūāhu-Ockham Group

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