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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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Home New Zealand

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Design_ Life and Culture • Art, design, books, events, and people and places of note.

Celebrating Home of the Year 2022

Viewpoint • Intersecting a meandering public pathway that leads through the dunes of New Brighton beach, a new building seeks to be both part of the landscape and offer pockets of shelter from it.

Back garden

Insider art • Interiors and architecture have been influencing artists for centuries. We take a look at some upcoming exhibitions and local creatives tackling this fruitful combination.

Full house • From finding mindfulness through a chainsaw to imagined tours of the homes of creatives; we explore the latest and greatest design and architecture infused books.

You good thing • As one of our favourite Wellington independent bookshops, Good Books, approaches its second birthday, we talk to its crew about its design, and books they feel would be right at home in our readers’ libraries.

Of note: Join the Milan Club

Open Christchurch • HOME attended the second iteration of the annual architecture event Open Christchurch. Here is what we found.

HOME turns 500 • This is the 500th issue of HOME, a significant milestone in the title’s nearly 90-year history of documenting New Zealand architecture.

Cinematic design

Conscious travel • Road trips are synonymous with the way we holiday in and around New Zealand. They’re the stuff of childhood memories, of family holidays, and the good old weekend getaway – especially for those who live in one of our cities.

Nature abounds • Linking material and place with natural concrete.

Time and place • Frank Gehry really knew what he was talking about.

Woman of the land

A contemporary kitchen of timber and stone • Once an old farmhouse, this historic Epsom villa has welcomed a modern addition fit for entertaining.

Tonal synergy

Black, white • On a busy corner site in suburban Auckland, a kitchen of contrasts is designed in cohesion with the original home.

Considered irregularity • Create an unexpected narrative by exploring unconventional silhouettes, quirky angularity and textured materiality.

Vibrant winter tones: colour that pops

In Detail • A deeper dive into the interior and architectural products specified by designers in this issue of HOME

A minimalist touch

Island abode

Simon James • If there was ever a doubt that, in architecture, context can be an incredibly rich source of inspiration and of symbolically grounding a structure, JCA Studio’s Memory Rock house on Great Barrier Island can put that argument to rest.

Paetawa House

A Touch of Subtle Elegance • In product design, elegance comes from simplicity, and simplicity is often a result of considered and thorough design thinking.

Ponsonby House

Memory Rock

Parnell House

Paetawa House

Rock Memory • On Great Barrier Island, this off-the-grid bach mimics the form of a well-known rock on nearby Medlands Beach.

scenes Country • This rural Canterbury home designed by Bull O’Sullivan pushes boundaries while verging on the cinematic.

Light above the dunes • Although this Kapiti Coast home for one by Andrew Sexton Architecture is compact, it delivers a multitude of experiences and connections to nature, as well as grand and detailed architectural gestures.

Let it breathe • In Ponsonby, a villa is extended around a...