Brighton Residence by Hecker Guthrie emerges as a richly layered family home that expresses its materiality through an inviting engagement with both the outdoors and an embedded openness.

The home of architects Ingrid Richards and Adrian Spence, La Scalais a building that challenges assumptions and tells the story of an ambitious vision for its site.

Lindfield House sees Polly Harbison Design and Arent & Pyke propose a unique home of the familiar and eclectic, adding a personality and uniqueness as a play on scale.

Pouaka Waikura extends a vernacular familiar and resonant to its owners. Taking a unique approach to a beguiling site.

Driven by the clients’ desire to be engulfed by their garden, Greenhouse sees Bence Mulcahy replace a failing 1980s extension to the original turn-of-the-century home.

Emerging from the ridge, Cheshire Architects’ Waiheke House is takes form as two pavilions, one open, the other closed, that are separated by a central stone wall.

Topology Studio’s House at Otago Bay is a play on concealing and revealing through contrasting locally sourced materiality and dramatic formal responses.

At its heart, Bunkeren by James Stockwell Architect attempts to actively dismantle the object qualities of the architecture in favour of ambiguous, landscape-driven spaces of discovery.

Cove House sees an exploration of thresholds and the transitionary experience, expressed through materiality. Justin Humphrey Architects has created a home rich in tactile elements.

Pearl Beach House provides a reprieve from the surrounding vegetation, as Polly Harbison Design embraces the challenges of a new typology and changing climate.

Hawthorn House by Edition Office explores an ever-changing experience of habitation and its continued enrichment through the incremental encroachment of the garden.