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For as long as we’ve had our house, I’ve hankered after an outdoor fire, though we never had the right space for it. When we renovated last year, we built a small, sheltered deck out the back; it’s two steps down from the main deck, and there’s a han

The seasoned photographer headed down south for our Central Otago cover home, which features on p.66. What was it that impressed you most about the cover home? The location is amazing and the house embraces it, tucking low and modestly into the hil

What was it like to revisit your original plans for a new client? This was a unique case – a new client that we had also contemplated building with previously. We just picked up from where we left off really. As a new introduction to the plan, how d

How many square metres is the apartment and how does it function within the footprint? It’s essentially a 130-square-metre one-bedroom apartment with a study, which would be an outlier in the current Auckland apartment market. The original plan was b

What was it like working with Megson? We were novices in respect to house design but Claude had a marvellous ability to ease the client into the process. Regular meetings proceeded over what was a long design phase. I guess he was teaching full time

What did the owners ask you to create on this beachfront site? Helen and Jack wanted a warm house that related well to the beach. The views are fantastic and Jack is very active in the water, so a direct connection to the beach and Rangitoto was impo

Home of the Year is New Zealand’s most prestigious – and lucrative – prize for New Zealand residential architecture. Since 1996, the magazine has judged the finest new homes – everything from expansive beach houses to brilliant little inner-city dwel