Take a look inside the studios where Home of the Year winning houses are first dreamed up. Cheshire Architects, whose twin cabins on the Kaipara Harbour won Home of the Year in 2014 and the People’s Choice award this year; Fearon Hay, whose holiday home won Home of the Year in 2000, and Stevens Lawson, a studio with four Home of the Year wins to its name.
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In the Coromandel, a home with a humble profile and a thoughtful design makes the most of a stunning location.
Built with awe-inspiring attention to detail, this Arrowtown home is a fresh interpretation of a familiar Otago rural vernacular.
This sculptural Northland bach is a perfect north arrow on a remote farm high above the sea.
With the sun on its bow and the community at its stern, this is a house in which the elements are always front of mind.
The 2024 Readers’ Choice Home of the Year, Sumner House by RTA Studio, is a place of striking proportions and captivating creativity: a powerful response
Perched atop an escarpment overlooking Whangārei’s town basin, this home is the embodiment of the owners’ vision, the architects’ knowledge, and the builder’s expertise.
Nine years ago Scott Thorp moved to Christchurch to be closer to the mountains. It was here that he felt most connected to the land,
Drawing on eight distinctive New Zealand landscapes, each reminiscent of a particular era in our colour evolution between 1830 and 1930, a new collection from
