Home of the Year 2025
The Award
Entries are now open for Home of the Year 2025 – the 30th year of New Zealand’s highly regarded prize for residential architecture.
The award celebrates the country’s best new homes, and comes with a $10,000 prize for Home of the Year. The categories for Small Home of the Year, City Home of the Year, Rural Home of the Year, Green Home of the Year, Alt & Reno Home of the Year, and Multi-Unit Home of the Year, meanwhile, recognise the specific nuances of architecture in different contexts.
Each project entered is automatically considered for Home of the Year. This goes to the home that captures a moment in time: they aren’t always the grandest, though there have been plenty of those over the years too. They are pure expressions of architectural thought, a unique intersection between a client’s brief and the designer’s vision.
Entry Form
You may enter a category, but you don’t have to. We’re looking for the six strongest projects across the categories, while every project entered is automatically considered for Home of the Year, whether or not it is entered into a category.
Entries close at 5pm, Friday, 6 December 2024.
For each project, 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
Terms and Conditions
- Instructions on how to enter form part of the terms and conditions of entry. Entry into the Home Interior of the Year promotion is deemed acceptance of these terms and conditions.
- The award is open to anyone with a project that has been completed recently in New Zealand.
- Entries to the award open on Sunday, 1 June 2025 and must be received by 5pm Friday 1 August 2025 (the Promotional Period). Entrants may enter multiple projects and multiple categories.
- The project must not be committed for publication during the period of 1 June 2025 and 31 December 2025. What constitutes publication is to be determined by Nook Publishing in its sole discretion.
- By entering this award, entrants confirm and warrant that they have the necessary consents and permissions to publish the project in a mainstream publication.
- Entrants agree that any related publicity and/or promotional activity, including television coverage, belong to Nook Publishing Limited.
- 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.
- Homeowners’ names and addresses relevant to submitted projects should be supplied at the time of entry but will not be published or made public.
- 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.
- Neither Nook Publishing nor any other entity associated with this award will be responsible for any late, lost, misdirected, or incorrectly submitted entries, including but not limited to entries not received due to technical problems or human error. The time entries are deemed to be made will be the time the entry is received, not the time the entry is submitted by an entrant.
- Judging will take place in August 2024.
- The judges of the award will be selected by Nook Publishing in its sole discretion.
- All decisions made by the judges and/or Nook Publishing are final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
- The winners will feature in the magazine’s Oct/Nov 2025 issue.
- Nook Publishing collects and holds personal information provided by entrants for the purposes of this award and for future promotional purposes. 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 admin@nookpublishing.co.nz.