An evening of celebration
12 May 2023
At an exclusive event in Auckland last month, we celebrated the 2023 Home of the Year winners and finalists.
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At an exclusive event in Auckland last month, we celebrated the 2023 Home of the Year winners and finalists.
A mature and restrained response to an awe-inspiring location. The architect has combined a wide range of influences — from Sri Lankan to her own, impressive international career — to achieve a quintessentially local response to site, context, and history.
Reclaiming an old DOC carpark on the shore of Lake Hawea, this holiday home that opens to the sky is designed around a farming family’s get-togethers in the South Island.
A hilltop home in Dunedin becomes a gallery of sorts, its form an object of art itself – one of warmth, playfulness, and urbanity.
In central Auckland, BVA Studio designs an elegant addition defined by a cascading, flowering green roof that meets copper, dark-stained timber and concrete.
Encompassing an original — and much-loved — stone building, two apartments deliver a delightful dialogue between old and new, making the most of a lakefront site in central Queenstown.
A mature and restrained response to an awe-inspiring location. The architect has combined a wide range of influences — from Sri Lankan to her own, impressive international career — to achieve a quintessentially local response to site, context, and history.
Beautifully sited in a rural setting of mature trees, a large pond, and horse paddocks, this strong and elegant house has a calmness and certainty of place and purpose.
The 2022 Home of the Year awards evening was a resounding success, celebrating a rich and diverse group of projects that deliver excellence, joy, and innovation.
The finalists are revealed. View each of the finalist homes in the 2022 Home of the Year awards programme.
On a southern beach where seals come ashore and kārearea hunt, this bunker-like holiday home was designed to tread lightly on the land.
Jeremy Smith from Irving Smith Architects talks to HOME about the intricacies of Feather House, the 2021 Small Home of the Year.
The 2021 Rural Home of the Year explores retreat and openness, gracefully unfolding between retired paddock and coastline.
A mature and restrained response to an awe-inspiring location. The architect has combined a wide range of influences — from Sri Lankan to her own, impressive international career — to achieve a quintessentially local response to site, context, and history.
A challenging tight suburban site competently handled via good planning, excellent control of views and nice separation of guest quarters from the main house by bridge.
Although modest in size and budget, this Auckland multi-generational home puts the client at its heart while at the same time future-proofing the asset for any potential uses that might eventuate.
It takes a certain level of daredevilry and nous to convince a client to build a two-bedroomed home for a family of five.
An interview with Bergendy Cooke, the architect responsible for the 2021 Home of the Year, Black Quail House, in Bannockburn, Otago.
HOME magazine is delighted to announce that the Home of the Year 2021 finalists have been selected.
We step into a house with a naturally warm interior and designers with impeccable understanding of what it takes to create and monitor the performance of a family home.
Today, the judges explore Southland and Otago, discuss sustainability, designing in remote locations, and New Zealand as a whole.
Today, the judges explore homes that were designed and built by architects and their friends and family – places of soulful moments, spatial experimentation and an overtly playful approach to design.
It’s when we end up right behind a lonesome cow frantically trotting ahead of our van that it dawns on me: we are now judging the Rural Home of the Year category.
This week, we follow the Home of the Year 2021 judges as they embark on an ambitious architectural journey around New Zealand.
This extraordinary house by Cheshire Architects is filled with dynamic spaces where everything you touch has texture and history. The brief from the clients was
Faced with a flat grassy site on the outskirts of Wānaka, PAC Studio and Steven Lloyd created an intriguing house around a series of courtyards
Beautifully crafted and utterly romantic, the Home of the Year 2020 runner up by Cheshire Architects is a stunning response to off-grid living The runner
Our annual Home of the Year award is New Zealand’s most prestigious architectural prize, with a cheque of $15,000 going to the winning architects. In
A family bach in the Kuaotunu dunes by Crosson Architects wins Home of the Year 2020. Watch the video below and pick up a copy
Very special thanks to our sponsor Altherm Window Systems With HOME celebrating its 25th Home of the Year awards, it’s no wonder that the calibre
HOME Editor Simon Farrell-Green discusses the Home of the Year 2020 shortlist and what made each of these designs stand out to the judges. With
Call it the year of the retreat. HOME magazine has just released the 10 homes that made the 2020 Home of the Year shortlist, and
Our inaugural event with the Home of the Year judges is back and you’re invited. Get your tickets and check out our chat with Patrick
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Architect Jack McKinney discusses the collaborative process that went into designing and building this award-winning home with its 56-tonne concrete roof [bjd-responsive-iframe src=”//players.brightcove.net/761709621001/121c5088-8069-41b4-8a1d-23d11db9fe47_default/index.html?videoId= 6021372594001″] Q&A
Traditional bivouacs motivated this home’s design but it was the path of the winter sun, plus the spectacular mountain views that dictated the home’s angles Q&A
The architect behind this design, Patrick Clifford, discusses how the design of the Wynyard apartments came to be. See more of these homes below Q&A
Tim Gittos and Caro Robertson of Spacecraft Architects discuss why this tricky site gave them inspiration and not trepidation. See more of this clever small
There were two possible sites for this award-winning Queenstown home. But the views from this location won the architect and owners over Q&A with Richard
After winning the Dulux award for best interior, Architect Stuart Gardyne discusses the details behind designing this Great Barrier bach Q&A with Stuart Gardyne of
See an inside glimpse into the Home of the Year 2019 judges’ journey through all of the finalist houses and how they ultimately decided on
With its striking concrete diagrid roof and sense of fun, HOME magazine’s Home of the Year 2019 is a truly Auckland house “It’s sort of
This small home takes its inspiration from the environment it sits in. Traditional bivouacs motivated its design for it is a place to relax, retreat
An award-winning Arrowtown home by Richard Naish of RTA Studio makes the most of coloured concrete by Peter Fell Come up the stone stairs and
The first project to be awarded Best Multi-Unit in years, the new Wynyard Central apartment building is what the new Auckland should look like
Richard Naish designs a home near Arrowtown that seems to emerge from the spectacular mountain landscape Home of the Year is brought to you in
Winning Best Small Home at the Home of the Year 2019 awards, this house does more than overcome a difficult site – it makes it
A sophisticated retreat by Architecture+ at Medlands Beach on Great Barrier Island rethinks conventional bach living. See why it won the Best Interior award, sponsored
From a dramatic getaway in Arrowtown to a bold family home in Grey Lynn, the winners from Home of the Year 2019 aren’t afraid to
With its striking concrete diagrid roof and sense of fun, HOME magazine’s Home of the Year 2019 is a truly Auckland house. Watch the video
How high-performing solutions from Altherm Window Systems are allowing architects and home owners to push design boundaries As the finalist designs in Home of the
Introducing the sixth and last finalist in Home of the Year 2019 – a beautifully resolved retreat on Great Barrier Island which reimagines form and
Introducing the fifth finalist for Home of the Year 2019 – A new apartment building in Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter that celebrates progressive design Project: Wynyard Central
Introducing the fourth finalist for Home of the Year 2019 – an unapologetically bold Auckland home that challenges what a family home should look like
Introducing the third finalist for Home of the Year 2019 – an intriguing Wellington home designed for a young family on a minimal budget Third finalist Home
Introducing the second finalist for Home of the Year 2019 – a dramatic Arrowtown getaway that manages to blend into the incredible surrounding landscape Second
Introducing the first finalist for Home of the Year 2019 – a little house near Queenstown which looks like it was carved out of the
Home of the Year 2019 is Altherm Window Systems’ 10th year as principal sponsor. To celebrate, we’ve collected a handful of South Island architectural highlights
HOME magazine has released the 10 houses that made it onto their Home of the Year 2019 shortlist. Watch the video below to see which
Featuring in Home of the Year over the past decade, this collection of beach homes is an example of New Zealand architecture at its best
Known as New Zealand’s most prestigious prize for residential architecture, don’t miss your chance to get your entry in for Home of the Year 2019 Is
Home of the Year 2019 is Altherm Window Systems’ 10th year as principal sponsor. To celebrate, we’ve collected some architectural highlights from their decade of
Monastic yet welcoming, this small home shows the power of contained design. We speak to architect and owner, Braden Harford, about his award-winning home Q&A
HOME Editor Simon Farrell-Green gives us personal account of the whirlwind Home of the Year 2018 judges’ journey. Find out what the judges thought of
Sitting up on steel plinths with a sheltered internal courtyard, discover how Herbst Architects have taken a standard footprint and cleverly twisted it in on
By designing three separate spaces instead of one building, Cymon Allfrey was able to create a unique getaway that inspires genuine holiday living Q&A with
This award-winning home has an incredible interior with polished black floors, black timber ceiling and striking furniture and finishes sourced from Asia Q&A with Lance
Despite being enclosed by eight neighbours, this award-winning home manages to achieve privacy with an ingenious interior courtyard Q&A with Andrew Sexton of Andrew Sexton
Architect Guy Tarrant discusses the design concepts behind his commended contemporary home and how he managed to maintain the rhythm of the surrounding heritage streetscape
Designed by award winning architects Lance and Nicola Herbst, this Piha holiday home floats among the pōhutukawa. At once elemental and polished, it’s a striking
On a vertiginous site above Onetangi beach on Waiheke Island, Lance and Nicola Herbst create their most layered home yet A stunning clifftop home on Waiheke
Marshall Cook clearly expressed his own well-formed language in his contemporary family home on a tight inner-city site. With its ideas for mixed use, communal-style
With Altherm Window Systems as the key sponsor for the ninth year, Home of the Year continues to celebrate New Zealand’s leading residential architecture. But
We look back fifteen years to a home that was designed by Hugh Tennent. With a lodge-like sensibility, we rediscover how this home bends and
We look back twenty years ago to when Tim Need bought a house under order for demolition and salvaged the materials to build his own
On the outskirts of Hanmer Springs, this family holiday home draws on memories of camp grounds and small alpine buildings. A family getaway in Hanmer
Discover how Architect Guy Tarrant has negotiated a tricky heritage overlay to create a contemporary house very much at home on a street of villas
Surrounded by neighbours, down a long driveway, a courtyard home by Andrew Sexton Architecture more than overcomes its infill site New Zealand’s best city home
Monastic yet welcoming, this small home in Christchurch by Braden Harford, of Maguire and Harford Architects, shows the power of contained design A compact concrete
Just like the winner of Home of the Year, Glenfiddich is an example of pure craftsmanship and design. Glenfiddich is proud to support Home of
From a small concrete home in Christchurch to an impressive treetop retreat in Piha, we round up all the incredible winners from Home of the
Following a nationwide search HOME has announced the winner of Home of the Year 2018. Discover the story behind this inspiring project Introducing the winner
Check out the inspiring homes that made the finalists in Home of the Year 2018 Cymon Allfrey designs a unique bach for his family in Hanmer
Clustered around a central courtyard like a ‘camp’, this family retreat in Hanmer Springs is an interesting take on a bach. Take a tour through
Nestled in a pohutukawa grove in Piha, the fifth finalist in Home of the Year 2018 is a striking example of architecture. The fifth finalist
Introducing the third finalist for Home of the Year 2018 – a small courtyard home in Wellington that manages to create a sense of privacy
The second finalist for Home of the Year 2018 is an incredible clifftop home on Waiheke Island that takes architectural design to the next level
We begin the countdown to Home of the Year 2018. Watch and find out which incredible home was the first to make it into the
After much deliberation, the Home of the Year judges have narrowed down the list to 12 homes. Get an inside look at this year’s shortlist
Meet Mel Bright; HOME New Zealand’s international judge for Home of the Year 2018. Bright speaks in Wellington on February 13 and Auckland on February 15 for
