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Design_ Life and Culture

Californian pavilion DESIGN:01

With love DESIGN:02

Art and light DESIGN:03

Open Christchurch DESIGN:04

Changing seasons DESIGN:05

Design on film DESIGN:06 • The Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival is returning to our local screens for 2022. HOME’s digital editor, Katie Delany, reviews three films from this year’s programme.

Conscious development DESIGN:07

A wool renaissance DESIGN:08

By the river DESIGN:09

Arts DESIGN:10

Luxury is found in intelligent design DESIGN:11 • As the heart of the home, the kitchen can be a messy place — a centre for preparing food, cooking, cleaning, and entertaining. Great design can ensure the kitchen endures its many uses.

City making • Recently published architecture and urbanism gems we are reading, coveting, or have firmly placed on our reading list.

Capital flâneur

Of note

A clifftop vision DESIGN:13

White light DESIGN:14 • Sitting in the 2022 Rural Home of the Year, it is as if you are part of the forest canopy that extends out from the striking ridgeline where this house stands.

An urban retreat of brick and cedar DESIGN:15 • On a long, narrow site in Auckland’s Coxs Bay, an expertly conceived home opens up to a green reserve on the site’s eastern boundary.

Cohesive in colour DESIGN:16 • Pops of red, from deep wine hues to softer blush tones, are paired with textural metals, richly woven fabrics, and asymmetrical sculptural forms.

In Detail

Finalists

Terrace Edge

Furnishing the dream • A shopping trip to Milan and a fruitful collaboration between Sonya Cotter Design and Auckland’s Studio Italia gave this home by Bossley Architects the winning edge in this year’s Home of the Year Awards’ City and Interior categories.

Kingdom of stone • This year’s Interior and City category winner at the Home of the Year Awards is full of natural stone detailing, using fascinating specimens from several corners of the world. We speak to stone merchant, Graeme Thorne from Italian Stone, about this collaboration.

Clifftops

Black Ridge

Coxs Bay

Homes

Above the parapet • The 2022 Home of the Year, Terrace Edge House in Arrowtown, by Anna-Marie Chin, is a fresh interpretation of a familiar Otago rural vernacular built with awe-inspiring attention to detail.

Rewilding • On a previously farmed patch of land at the base of Mt Taranaki, macrocarpa trees originally planted to provide shelter for animals become the basis for a new type of shelter — a treehouse of sorts, an artist’s studio, a tiny home; a playful, versatile structure of soul and stature.

Resurrection • An old church on a prominent site in Nelson has been deftly and daringly brought back to life by Crosson Architects.

Landslide • In a steep, alpine environment where the land is always moving, architect Stacey Farrell envisioned a home of parts — an experiment in what was possible — and a place that delivered no more than needed.

Brick by brick • This central Auckland home delightfully reimagines city living, presenting a plan that marries privacy with insightful — and intimate — layers of connection to its surroundings.

Embracing the wilderness • Overlooking the Pukenui Forest in rural...