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.

Capturing the ebb and flow of the seasons and the structure’s removed siting, Coromandel Bach by Crosson Architects has been opening and closing to the elements for the past 21 years.

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.

Speaking to its surrounds, Cloudy Bay ‘The Shack’ is a celebration of and connection to New Zealand’s landscape, character and people.

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.

With a stainless-steel door set into its side the only indication as to its nature, Gottlieb House is as intriguing today as it was 30 years ago when Wood Marsh designed the building.

Connecting with the surrounding gardens, John Ellway has worked with Jacqueline Kaytar at Repose to imbue her family home with seamless unions.