Balancing a beachfront site with a unique design presented PRD Construction with one of its more fascinating builds to date.

Resembling a simple shed, this budget-conscious minor dwelling at Waipu is a place of rest and contemplation.

Part Slim Aarons, part Los Angeles hillside paid, this fun and beautifully detailed Christchurch home by PRau is proud of its modernist soul.

Higher density requires not just good design but good manners. This leafy, central-Nelson house by Irving Smith Architects sought to do just that.

Designed for a couple who are avid surfers, this clever addition on a compact coastal site is both overtly contemporary and entirely sympathetic to its context.

On a small, suburban hillside site in Christchurch, the design response for this family home was driven by verticality.

Against the backdrop of Mount Cardrona, and honouring the area’s gold-mining days, a barn-style home is devised as a journey of tactility and colour, mimicking the highly seasonal hues of this well-known rural valley.

Tucked away on a rear site in suburban Mt Albert, this double dwelling brings together a collection of materials and moments to deliver a beautifully cohesive whole. 

This off the grid house near Geraldine in is heated only with a wetback, despite snow covering the ground for much of winter.

Although this home hangs at a cliff’s edge above a leafy North Shore suburb, the house is all about strength and solidity.

In Ponsonby, a villa is extended around a compact courtyard linking old and new, while a gabled addition floats above a grounded lower level.