This sophisticated holiday home by Studio Pacific is composed of three pavilions and was inspired by mountain huts, Japanese interiors, extreme sports, yoga, and hospitality.

At the end of a shingle road deep in the Muriwai Valley on Auckland’s rugged West Coast is a place of dreamlike tranquillity. Here, Adam Mercer and Alastair Mckenzie envisioned a home that would cascade down from a ridgeline, culminating in a living space at the centre of a natural amphitheatre surrounded by native trees.

From the embers of an old Ponsonby villa rises a clever interpretation of traditional forms. Julian Guthrie Architecture achieved something entirely contemporary, yet firmly rooted in colonial design vocabulary.