2020 in Review: Top 5 houses
Take a look at our most popular houses of the year. From Otago to Northland, these residential projects have shown Kiwi architecture at its finest.
1. With the grain: Tairua Insitu House
This Coromandel residence appears as if it’s content to fall into its environment, to flow with the site typography and its gentle slope upwards from the street, and connect to the beach. At a glance, the dunes and home are a perfect pairing: mutable and solid, and in touch with one another.
2. Natural order
In Dunedin, this house is both gentle and compelling at once, with its agrarian, barn-like forms set to weather into the cliff over time. Together, the architects and home-owners have taken a simple, economical and robust design and created a space that can continue to grow and serve the family’s changing needs for generations to come.
3. The eagle has landed: Tara Iti house
Early New Zealand modernism, a respect for the sea views and a touch of golf inspired this pavilion – by architecture firm Box – on the shores of Mangawhai.
4. Courtyard dreams
The front door to this villa in Grey Lynn might look typical, but it’s a portal to another time and place. Architect Jose Gutierrez says that architecture is not just about compliance or making things fit. “It’s about intrigue and evoking the senses.”
5. Good things in small boxes: The Cube
Though First Light Studio’s Petone House – affectionately called The Cube – is small, it is packed full of thoughtful details and planning: a private courtyard, a soaring roofline, clever skylights and even a sauna are just the beginning.
See more from 2020 in Review here.
