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HOME covers the best New Zealand architecture, design and interiors. It features inspirational, ingenious and just plain breathtaking homes from all over the country – as well as new restaurants, exciting art and the latest furniture releases.

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Little Retreats • As a spate of new hotels surfaces on Auckland’s waterfront, we tour three of the most inspiring ones, discuss their design intent, and crystal-ball how their arrival might influence the areas that surround them.

QT Auckland

Park Hyatt

Bright Futures • New Zealand’s visual arts are starting to process the year that’s been. Here are a couple of recent, bittersweet morsels.

A moment in time

Soft comfort • This is the season to stay put in style.

Bungalow high • On a bend in the road in a historic area of Remuera, Auckland, this large site had been mostly unused for decades.

Good reads • One of our favourite book purveyors, Wellington’s Unity Books, has selected a trio of art, design, and history tomes to keep us visually and mentally fit during the holidays.

Hues of home • The colours of 2021

Lived in, and loved up

Urban whare • On a central Wellington street, architect John Mills weaves old and new into a rhythmic tapestry of texture and colour where the landscape becomes internal and the strange familiar.

Diamonds in the rough • Claude Megson’s unique contribution to New Zealand architecture had almost disappeared from view when this house, his masterpiece, was saved from demolition.

BRIDGE OVER WATER • Sandii McDonald creates a beautiful rhythm in a Japanese-inspired landscape — based on plans that were first drawn in the 1970s by Sang Architects — where natives give way to exotics and forms gracefully rise and fall.

BASALT ON THE SENSES • A cliff face, concrete construction, and lush planting create a vibrant and harmonious mix in the Cashmere hills.

WHERE THE VALLEY MEETS THE SEA • (and the concept of street is open to interpretation)

Alfresco • Lounge in style this summer.

Monolithic and fresh

Chiaroscuro

Elegant warmth

Kitchen culture • Grind it, cut it, serve it, light it, or put it away.

Spirit island

Rustic hints

Cooking with light

Well-being in mind

By the sea

the Wharf orchard above • All too often we celebrate the new, yet little compares with the elegance of a venerable design that has stood the test of time and aged handsomely.

The Long House • Kumeu, Auckland Designed by Tim Hay, Fearon Hay Architects

Sailing home • A Kerr Ritchie–designed, Queenstown home influenced by a love for the outdoors.

Royalburn • Crown Range, Otago

The sea Below • John Irving creates a home that falls away to the ocean in Northland.

V House • Waipu Cove, Northland

Coastal Wilderness • On the divide between suburban street and wild dunescape, Brian White carves a retreat from a singular form.

Bowentown Bach • Waihi, Bay of Plenty

Family affair • Designed and built by family members, this house in Leigh is steeped in heritage and ancestry.

Reef House • Leigh

Q&A Common Space • Having worked with some of the best local firms, Claire Natusch and Patrick Loo are picking up momentum with a studio of their own.