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.

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.