Embracing bold strokes and a love of the outdoors in an artist’s home and studio in Wānaka.
Rising above the red tape in Ōtautahi, Dean Cowell delivers an elegant response to our changing climate with this brutalist family retreat.
With some masterful manoeuvring, this striking little tower has taken the place of a crumbling concrete garage in suburban Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
Family is built into the walls of this Hawke’s Bay home, which relaxes into its serene setting with a natural humility.
If tasteful aliens diligently learned all the lessons from Le Corbusier and Eichler, built a wooden spaceship and landed it in a field, it might look something like this fantastic vacation house.
Patchwork Architecture stacks a trio of interconnecting boxes up a jagged little hill on Te Whanganui-a-Tara’s south coast.
Lovell & O’Connell Architects introduce a luxe yet laidback bach beside a 1950s original in Waikanae.
Keshaw McArthur designs an artful Arch Hill cottage extension around a distant maunga.
A family encampment by Bossley Architects becomes one with the scenery above Huruhi Bay on Waiheke Island.
Spacecraft Architects balance openness with moments of retreat in a terraced home on a cliffside in Brooklyn, Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
Life follows the sun in this open yet introspective Maungawhau home by Natasha Markham and Alex McLeod.
Mindful of the area’s mining history, John Hardwick-Smith creates a light-on-the-land bach for friends in Pūponga.
Architect Mike Callaghan believed he’d found his family’s forever home in Ōtautahi when a blank slate around the corner beckoned.
Driven by a couple’s desire for versatility, Gerard Dombroski designs a studio home atop a garage in Brooklyn, Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
A dramatic weathered jewel by Parsonson Architects drops anchor on the hilltop above Te Mamaku Ruby Bay.
A new home by Patchwork Architecture has transformed the former Gonville Swimming Baths in Whanganui into a contemporary family compound.
Humble apple crates planted the seed of inspiration for this idyllic family home on the outskirts of Tāmaki Makaurau by Strachan Group Architects.
Herbst Architects craft a private seaside retreat at Wairahi Langs Beach with finely tuned levels and rhythmic screening.
A stark white home and studio invite closer inspection on an Ōtautahi cliffside.
Embraced by regenerating native bush, this family home at Hāhei combines privacy with an open-door policy.
Spacecraft Architects turn an empty pocket of the character-filled Aro Valley into an opportunity of unique proportions
Rafe Maclean designs an eco-conscious home and studio in Wānaka that’s centred around a sense of enclosure.
An elegant bolthole by Lovell & O’Connell Architects spreads its wings on the rocky slopes of Little Mount Iron.
Tucked away in a leafy suburb of Tāmaki Makaurau, this sublime courtyard home by Guy Tarrant is a sanctuary of space and light.
Steeped in sunlight and nostalgia, this Taupō beach house by Parsonson Architects puts a modern skew on the classic Kiwi bach.
On an overlooked site at Matapōuri, a bach looks inward to create an entirely different experience.
A prefabricated trio of cabins provides an intimate off-grid escape, scattered across a slice of North Canterbury wine country.
Behind a windowless brick wall, Georgia Peacocke creates an elegant retreat with expansive estuary views.
Tropical influences and a corner site meet happily in a house that opens and closes as the seasons change.
Paul Davidson spends five years finishing a crafted little house in the bush at Anawhata.
Designed with a focus on taking time and slowing down, this beautifully resolved coastal escape gives itself over to the rhythm of the landscape.
An environmentally minded home surrounded by regenerating bush skims the earth above Ōtama Beach.
Oli Booth turns the tables on convention to create a striking little family home in Grey Lynn, Tāmaki Makaurau.
Architect Gerald Parsonson plants an urbane family home in a field near Te Hemo-a-Te Atonga Havelock North.
Patchwork Architecture construct a robust yet sensitively detailed family home in a disused front yard.
Life threw architect Henri Sayes a curveball and he responded in kind with this brick beauty in Onehunga, Tāmaki Makaurau.
Architect Hamish Cameron crafts an intuitive and sustainable forever home that’s in tune with its surroundings.
A trio of houses on a single site in Te Whanganui-a-Tara add up to a lot more than the sum of their parts.
Patchwork Architecture presents an elevated take on intensification in the capital.
Somewhere between city home and bach, this prefabricated Waiheke Island house by Hamish Stirrat is one out of the box.
Gallerist Annie Wilson shares the magic of her and partner Sean’s Pūkorokoro Miranda home in her own words.
Johnstone Callaghan Architects create an intimate, off-grid retreat that treads ever-so lightly in the Tasman bush.
Designed as a weekend retreat and future retirement haven, architect Tim Nees delivers a home that’s in harmony with the land.
Patrick Clifford of Architectus creates a cliffside escape for friends that explores the pleasure of volume and scale.
A family home in Ōtautahi Christchurch finds harmony between sustainability and style.
Inspired by boatsheds, Andrew Patterson composes an elegant family resort on Waiheke Island that’s both minimal and monumental.
Herbst Architects present an intriguing yet harmonious show of contradictions in this family hideaway at Matapōuri Beach.
With an alternative approach and an intuitive ear, Rafe Maclean arrives at something unexpected in Wānaka.
Part fale, part harbour marker: RTA Studio designs a striking off-grid bach at Medlands Beach on Aotea Great Barrier Island.
Natalie Parke and Dom Glamuzina challenge expectations with a compact bach on the hill at Tairua.
Faced with a flat paddock and rolling views, Patchwork Architecture designs a sophisticated response.
Geoff Fletcher arranges two light-on-the-land whare on stilts down a vertiginous hillside in Aro Valley.
Part whare, part barn... Stevens Lawson crafts a house on Waiheke Island for contemplation and retreat.
Pac Studio transcends planning strictures and a property bubble to create a sublime minor dwelling
Over nearly a decade, Rafe Maclean collaborates with a young family to design a home that's grown as their needs have changed.
James Warren and Bruce Banbury craft a house instilled with light and memory above the Heathcote Estuary in Christchurch.
To afford this magnificent piece of land, two architects built a small but incredibly hard-working house and studio in the mountains near Arrowtown.
Gerald Parsonson designs an expansive family home at Lake Hawea for art-addicted collectors
Paul Clarke builds a house for his family that draws on the memory of their former home.
Surprise! Spacecraft Architects create delight in a courtyard home on a compromised Wellington site.
A young architect couple plays with colour and volume to create a home for themselves, and one to rent
With bold moves and radical transparency, Jack McKinney deftly slips a new house into a heritage zone in central Auckland.
Rich Naish future-proofs a beachside retreat for his family on a challenged site north of Auckland.
On a bucolic site just behind Whangapoua beach, a contemporary shed manages views, wind and the needs of friends and family.
A sharp little house on Waiheke Island is a contrast in openness and containment.
A modest bach at Riversdale Beach to fill with extended family and friends.
A retreat in rural Katikati has wide views, a sense of containment – and a helluva lot of soul.
A new cabin by Cheshire Architects in a clifftop compound redefines luxury with raw materials and a simple composition.
Wanting to work closer to home, Shane Kingsbeer builds a new courtyard house behind his architecture studio on the fringes of downtown Gisborne.
Using local earth and clever planning, Assembly Architects designs a discreet house on a hill with spectacular views.
Turning the typical suburban house upside down and inside out, David Stubbs creates an intriguing vertical home in Picton.
Evan Mayo finds unexpected inspiration in a decidedly suburban setting at Mount Maunganui.
With a distinctly personal touch, chef Al Brown makes an apartment in a tower by Cheshire Architects his own.
Richard Naish deals with storms and sea lions for the design of a robust crib in The Catlins.
Sam Kebbell designs an unpretentious wooden house in Hataitai with neighbours and community in mind.
Drawing on Scandinavian shingles and Japanese ski huts, a smart little holiday home in Wānaka causes a stir.
Using cross-laminated timber and a little chutzpah, Cecile Bonnifait and William Giesen overcome a site others might consider unbuildable.
A young couple overcomes a vertiginous site and tiny budget with care, craft and courage.
Aotearoa is blessed with dramatic landscapes. Here is a home purpose-designed for the mountains.
This laid-back, clean-lined home with sea views makes the most of a tricky Waiheke Island section.
A busy Nelson couple’s Walter’s Bluff haven balances sea views with a sturdy exterior to withstand the elements.
The dynamic aesthetics of mid-century modernist architecture hold up as stylish statements in this contemporary build in Riverhead.
The highest aspiration of many philosophies is balance – and this Waikanae crowd-pleaser delivers.
Tim Nees designs an intimately personal home and studio overlooking the surf of Ōtautahi’s Te Onepoto Taylor’s Mistake.
A site switch and a compelling sense of restraint underpin the success of this energy-efficient Tāwharanui Peninsula home by Neu Architecture.
On a windswept coastal site near Ngāmotu New Plymouth, this courtyard home by Gibbons Architects strikes a fine balance between exposure and enclosure.
Benched into the hillside, overlooking the first tee of a coastal Wairarapa golf course, this beach shelter by Neville Parker, of Inside Design, is a lighthearted return to how we once holidayed.
Rogan Nash Architects create a restful bach at Rotorua’s Lake Ōkāreka that’s perfect for two – or 12.
In the foothills of Tauranga’s Welcome Bay, Cate Creemers designs a home around views and an extensive art collection.
In a cluster of gum trees just outside Tarras, Gary Todd creates a modern, easy home for retirement.
Henri Sayes reinterprets the traditional suburban bungalow with this intimate Onehunga home.
Mercer & Mercer Architects design a Mount Maunganui home with fun at the forefront.
Young Architects battled tough terrain when designing this robust Ōtautahi family home.
Architect Evelyn McNamara evokes a sense of retreat in this Glendowie family home.
An established garden provides the perfect backdrop to this family-focused home in Ngāmotu.
Clive Chapman puts down roots on a leafy site in Ponsonby, Tāmaki Makaurau.
A Wānaka holiday home by Wilson & Hill Architects has views to the future.
Bergendy Cooke designs a Central Otago home that takes cues from its surroundings and the historic local vernacular.
A hard-working beach house in Taranaki by First Light Studio transitions effortlessly to full-time home.
A family home connects to nature through a design that opens up to big, rural views.
A private cricket pavilion at Point Wells
An elegant Waikato home is based on the most agrarian of references.
A house by Gerrad Hall hides in plain sight near a public beach and reserve.
