Immersed in the subtropics of Tintenbar, on the Far North Coast of New South Wales, Ground House 107R is a rugged guesthouse of unexpected beauty and craftsmanship.

A home for a young family, Family Heritage sees Luigi Rosselli Architects and Alwill Interiors fuse a modern, youthful approach together with an existing charm.

With landscaping by Secret Gardens, Courland House is a family abode with a sense of sanctuary and privacy created through landscaping.

Situated in Werribee South – a district known for its agricultural plains – the residence asserts a modern identity against the surrounding pastoral landscape.

Bookended by the ocean and the foothills in Wellington’s harbourside suburb of Eastbourne, RK Residence by Seear-Budd Ross is superbly suited to its surrounds.

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.