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Home of the Year 1996-2020

It’s our 25th Home of the Year and we are celebrating a quarter-century of New Zealand’s best houses. Inspired by Ruth Buchanan’s wonderful taxonomy of the collections at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, in which she categorised each decade by key metrics, we thought we’d order by context, and then count some key indicators. The results are revealing. There aren’t many in small towns, and rather a lot at the beach. There are nowhere near

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