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Since 1936, HOME has showcased New Zealand residential architecture; homes that are designed to inspire, challenge and delight, by the country’s best architects. In every issue we invite our readers into these homes, telling their owners’ stories at the same time as explaining how these remarkable buildings came to be. Simultaneously, HOME celebrates New Zealand’s best design, interiors and landsc

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Te Mānia is a sculptural and immersive architectural response to the enduring presence of Rongokako. ⁠⁠Designed by Steve...
28/07/2025

Te Mānia is a sculptural and immersive architectural response to the enduring presence of Rongokako. ⁠
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Designed by Stevens Lawson Architects, it recently won a NZIA - Gisborne/Hawkes Bay Branch Architecture Award.⁠
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Located at the foot of Te Mata Peak in the Tukituki Valley on a thin strip of land locked between the revered maunga and overlooking the Tukituki River, Te Mānia is a project of dualities.⁠
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"The angular forms of the Te Mānia Room reflect the rocky outcrops of the overhead peaks, with deep apertures carved out of the building form to frame the views in all directions, emphasising the contrast between solid and void. The Te Mānia Room is the extrovert at the centre of the social and entertaining experience. In sharp contrast the introverts, the sleeping houses, retreat into the landscape.⁠
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“Serpentine in form, the houses draw inspiration from the river they face. The raw and rustic face of the in situ concrete structures tone with the riverbed and guests are cocooned below the earth in a cave-like structure of soft hues and textures," explain architects Nicholas Stevens and Gary Lawson.⁠
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The office of dreams?⁠⁠Queenstown-based architectural duo Alister Brown and Katrina Dravitzki, aka Dravitzki Brown, have...
23/07/2025

The office of dreams?⁠
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Queenstown-based architectural duo Alister Brown and Katrina Dravitzki, aka Dravitzki Brown, have long embraced working from home. It was part of their lifestyle well before the pandemic reshaped the way we work for good.⁠
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Based in Speargrass Flat, just outside Queenstown, the pair — partners in life and in their practice — designed a 56-square-metre structure among the willows as both an office and a showcase of their work, and in it, found the perfect work/life rhythm.⁠

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Project Feature | A Series of Fortunate EventsUntil recently, this 1960s home sat squarely at the centre of a generous s...
23/07/2025

Project Feature | A Series of Fortunate Events

Until recently, this 1960s home sat squarely at the centre of a generous site in the Auckland suburb of St Heliers. Privacy was scarce, and the arrival was framed with little more than a pair of exposed car parks — an arrangement that left the home visually adrift.⁠
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The façade — clinker brick below and timber above — spoke clearly of the home’s era. Inside, a partial renovation had nudged it towards the present, but the transformation felt unresolved. It was at this stage that Matter Architects was engaged to deliver the project’s final phase — a thoughtful edit rather than a complete rewrite.⁠
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Key to the brief: a defined sense of arrival, greater privacy, and a stronger relationship between house and landscape.⁠
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The solution began with a new stand-alone structure housing a garage and pool house. Positioned along the northern boundary, this acts as a visual bookend — a deliberate delineation between public and private, and the starting point for a sequence of moments that now define this overtly contemporary family home.⁠

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Architecture for Sale | Orakei House by RTA StudioConceived as a courtyard sanctuary, the home is crowned by a sculptura...
02/07/2025

Architecture for Sale | Orakei House by RTA Studio

Conceived as a courtyard sanctuary, the home is crowned by a sculptural ‘folded cloud’ — a striking roofline that shimmers in golden hues, catching sunlight as it arcs across the sky. ⁠

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Design News | A Natural Evolution⁠⁠Known for its tactile, handcrafted rugs, New Zealand design studio Nodi has expanded ...
02/07/2025

Design News | A Natural Evolution⁠
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Known for its tactile, handcrafted rugs, New Zealand design studio Nodi has expanded its material language — introducing carpet in a thoughtful reimagining of the category.⁠
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The collection is a natural evolution of the brand’s philosophy, which centres on the belief that what we place underfoot fundamentally shapes how we experience and inhabit space.⁠
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With this new offering, Nodi moves from the intimate scale of the object to the architectural scale of the built environment, inviting a more grounded, intentional experience of space.⁠
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>> Tap the link below to read the full story on homemagazine.nz now, or pick up the latest issue of HOME to explore this collection of tactile richness and quiet beauty.⁠

https://homemagazine.nz/a-natural-evolution/

Video Feature | Sandtrap by Lloyd HartleyAn elevated beachfront site inspired Lloyd Hartley Architects to scoop up sand-...
30/06/2025

Video Feature | Sandtrap by Lloyd Hartley

An elevated beachfront site inspired Lloyd Hartley Architects to scoop up sand-like materials and craft a playful, cohesive house with impressive detailing and flexibility at its core.

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Off-grid in Mangawhai by ⁠⁠For years, architect Tim Daniel of Gel Architects and his partner Sarah James found themselve...
29/06/2025

Off-grid in Mangawhai by ⁠
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For years, architect Tim Daniel of Gel Architects and his partner Sarah James found themselves drawn, weekend after weekend, to the slower rhythm of Northland.⁠
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“We’d been looking for land on Trade Me, and one weekend we were up [in Northland] and recognised a street name from a search. Tim said ‘Turn here’, and, by complete chance, a real estate agent was there. We bought the property the next day,” Sarah says.⁠
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This serendipitous turn of events marked the beginning of something entirely personal. “It’s the first time I’ve designed something that’s really about us,” Tim tells us. “It’s something that reflects how we want to live — simply and sustainably.”⁠
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As the design unfolded — mostly during evenings spent at home in Auckland — Tim and Sarah worked collaboratively to develop a little place that exercised big ideas. “It was about considering what you actually need to live comfortably,” Tim explains.⁠
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That pivotal question sits at the heart of the design. This home was always going to be small — a diminutive structure that sits low on the land on a 1.3-hectare site of native bush and retired paddocks. The initial idea was that a second dwelling would eventually be built on the site; that plan has since faded into memory as the couple have realised this is all they need.⁠
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Tap the link below to read the full feature on homemagazine.nz now, or pick up the new issue of HOME, on sale nationwide where good magazines are sold. ⁠

https://homemagazine.nz/off-grid-cabin-in-mangawhai/
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Butterfly Wings⁠⁠A small annex to Sir Miles Warren’s RC Ballantyne House in Christchurch allowed Phil Redmond of PRau a ...
27/06/2025

Butterfly Wings⁠
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A small annex to Sir Miles Warren’s RC Ballantyne House in Christchurch allowed Phil Redmond of PRau a chance to imagine a long-lost character from the iconic architect’s canon.⁠
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How can you refurbish or add an annex to an existing house without it looking like a cliché addition or creating a total contrast to what is already there?⁠
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That is a question every architect grapples with, of course, but it becomes doubly important when the original abode was designed by someone who almost single-handedly defined local modernism. The weight of their mana bears down on every brick you hope to move.⁠
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No pressure then?⁠
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“It’s more exciting!” says Phil Redmond of PRau about his recent, two-stage project on the RC Ballantyne House — one of the houses that the late Sir Miles Warren designed for the Ballantyne family. “It’s always nice to have a lot to jump off from,” the designer continues, “whether it’s the context of all of their work, or specific things of the house itself.”⁠
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Read more at the link below or pick up the new issue of HOME, on sale nationwide.⁠

https://homemagazine.nz/butterfly-wings/
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Architecture for Sale ~ Pocket Houses by ⁠⁠The 2025 Multi-Unit Home of the Year is on the market. ⁠⁠Each of these compa...
26/06/2025

Architecture for Sale ~ Pocket Houses by ⁠
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The 2025 Multi-Unit Home of the Year is on the market. ⁠
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Each of these compact dwellings is designed to fit into the same space as the quintessential Kiwi double garage. They’re affordable, replicable models for a new housing typology, and perhaps just the answer we’ve been seeking for achieving gentle density.⁠
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On a sliver of land carved from a larger section occupied by a single-level brick-and-tile home, these two little dwellings fit comfortably onto a 292m² rear site in Auckland’s Ōtāhuhu. ⁠
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They began as a personal project for Dorrington Atcheson Architects’ Tim Dorrington and Emma-Jane Hetherington. An explorative concept, it evolved over time, as these things tend to do, and ended with a thought-provoking housing model that shines a light on one way to make architecture more accessible.⁠
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Find out more and view the listing here: https://homemagazine.nz/pocket-houses/

High Life⁠⁠High above Tāmaki Makaurau’s hectic Queen Street, created a haven to contain precious art and objects.⁠⁠Let’...
25/06/2025

High Life⁠
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High above Tāmaki Makaurau’s hectic Queen Street, created a haven to contain precious art and objects.⁠
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Let’s take a moment to appreciate the threshold — that point between outside and in. It’s a line that’s usually crossed without much thought, but in this home, created by Rogan Nash Architects in a CBD high-rise, it’s a very well-considered traverse.⁠
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“What your house is like can really affect how you live,” explains Kate Rogan. “When you leave this home, there’s all the hustle and bustle of the city, so you need that threshold moment, where the feeling changes and you come back in and feel safe and can relax. You set that mood and move into a sanctuary.”⁠
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It wasn’t always this zen at the top of the Queen Street high-rise. When the architects started work revamping the penthouse apartment in the 1960s building, the aluminium-clad commercial lift delivered residents unceremoniously to a characterless front door.⁠
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Now, guests enter the apartment through an oak-panelled door that is integrated into luxe library shelving. A bespoke light above turns on to signal the arrival of the lift carriage at the door.⁠
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Read the full feature at the link below, or pick up the new issue of HOME, on sale nationwide where good magazines are sold.⁠

https://homemagazine.nz/high-life/
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Words: Kirsten Matthew

Pre-Order Now | Homes of this Decade 2015—2025 ⁠⁠Homes of this Decade is a beautifully crafted hardcover book celebratin...
22/06/2025

Pre-Order Now | Homes of this Decade 2015—2025 ⁠
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Homes of this Decade is a beautifully crafted hardcover book celebrating the best New Zealand residential architecture of the past ten years. ⁠
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Across more than 300 pages, we explore the nuances of our evolving vernacular — from city sanctuaries to coastal bunkers and treetop cabins. ⁠
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Featuring 38 homes by New Zealand's leading architects, these are designs that reflect how we live now, and where we’re headed. ⁠
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Written by and with contributions from and Kirsten Matthew, and photography by ._straight .c.wilson and Patrick Reynolds, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the past, present and future of New Zealand interiors, architecture and design. ⁠
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Order now: https://simplecirc.com/07871445/item/13081/pre-order-homes-of-this-decade
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Thank you to our contributing partners

Queen of the Lake ⁠⁠The master plan of a dwelling comprising three separate buildings, originally conceived in the 1990s...
22/06/2025

Queen of the Lake ⁠
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The master plan of a dwelling comprising three separate buildings, originally conceived in the 1990s, has been completed by Sumich Chaplin Architects linking the three into an impressive lakeside home.⁠
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South of Queenstown’s CBD and just below Jack’s Point on the way to Kingston, there is a slightly hidden subdivision of 41 houses clustered around fewer than 10 small roads all leading west to Lake Wakatipu. A branch of The Remarkables crumbles down into this green valley, offering a dramatic backdrop of tussock, jagged schist, and greywacke, snow in winter, and brown tones year round.⁠
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This property, on the most desirable site in what is reportedly Queenstown’s first gated community, was originally conceived for the developer by Athfield Architects in the 1990s. It was imagined as three separate buildings: a double-height, barn-like structure; a separate guest house; and a main house that would be built at a later date and was expected to occupy the best, lake-facing spot.⁠
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Tap the link below to read the full feature on line now, or pick up the new issue of HOME, on sale nationwide.⁠

https://homemagazine.nz/queen-of-the-lake/
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