Our new cover

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our new cover features an outdoor room on Great Barrier Island, designed by Lance and Nicola Herbst of Herbst Architects and photographed by Jackie Meiring. We really like it and hope you do too - subscribers should receive their copies today, and the magazine will be on newsstands on Monday December 5. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9s-TUwOdcSW-e_vc82GHz-AHBHIHjraLbi0YNR29XbX2DJXaz13aKipIoTCrh6ko11lKMLYlwLdxlxFY9fBpCf_lAnTIOOi1fbZFd37j-K93nEPQoGRCkuSJpCdapV6mgQpeYS7q_Kb6/s1600/HOME+New+Zealand+Dec+Jan+2012+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" dda="true" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis9s-TUwOdcSW-e_vc82GHz-AHBHIHjraLbi0YNR29XbX2DJXaz13aKipIoTCrh6ko11lKMLYlwLdxlxFY9fBpCf_lAnTIOOi1fbZFd37j-K93nEPQoGRCkuSJpCdapV6mgQpeYS7q_Kb6/s400/HOME+New+Zealand+Dec+Jan+2012+cover.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our new issue also features a slick black cottage by Fearon Hay Architects on Great Barrier Island, a colourful, 50s-inspired bach on the Kapiti Coast by Parsonson Architects, New Zealand-born architect David Howell's glamorous New York apartment, a former dental clinic reinvented as a bach at Lake Taupo by Rick Pearson and Briar Green, and lots more. The graphic design boffins among you will also be interested to know that this issue features a redesign led by Arch MacDonnell at Inhouse Design. Let us know your thoughts on it...</span>

Our new cover

Our new cover features an outdoor room on Great Barrier Island, designed by Lance and Nicola Herbst of Herbst Architects and photographed by...

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Outtakes: Gerald Parsonson in the Marlborough Sounds

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A little diversion for your Friday morning: these are outtakes from Paul McCredie's shoot of a bach in the Marlborough Sounds by Gerald Parsonson of Parsonson Architects that appears in our current (June/July) issue. As you can see, the home is made up of two pavilions, connected at ground level but elegantly offset from one another. Seeing them again here makes us wish we were on the way there now...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWWfoKTVrh_jQsywzzvJRTsdqpoK-vUcrB5Z2eIH_lMNz8Sug6WR_2nGWIVTaPGcWR_9igmcFKvO5jbaKexCMkG2kl6WOAA-yO9rpBfYZQH4FDGonwt5gRzxyX4_s_24S0J7EOMsmsejq/s1600/Apple3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWWfoKTVrh_jQsywzzvJRTsdqpoK-vUcrB5Z2eIH_lMNz8Sug6WR_2nGWIVTaPGcWR_9igmcFKvO5jbaKexCMkG2kl6WOAA-yO9rpBfYZQH4FDGonwt5gRzxyX4_s_24S0J7EOMsmsejq/s400/Apple3.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdMsy9ykDi6lU_btt-JhF5nWd6NTLYnaKPSDw4tUXXL-LAlSTSEWnDYdS1Ctt0zE6RFi3-KuRaQhwm4VmLJMDCq2eD2mJYwshUJQZinz_ewKPERcz0OyoOmVBV-ZLBt0PhteQpT65EgnB/s1600/Apple12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJdMsy9ykDi6lU_btt-JhF5nWd6NTLYnaKPSDw4tUXXL-LAlSTSEWnDYdS1Ctt0zE6RFi3-KuRaQhwm4VmLJMDCq2eD2mJYwshUJQZinz_ewKPERcz0OyoOmVBV-ZLBt0PhteQpT65EgnB/s400/Apple12.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbMWSUfCqFdcXHo03Pll0duOVNjNYuhvuwCuMCqZIIfWEGdPYKbVoSRocKyNjUwG4cOme4UJqr0gs33-5fCddh8CCUWiDY76kgzIKNsovCTDj-R2mjnRxifTPvqcDKrGYAhWFG8HxNokwm/s1600/Apple17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbMWSUfCqFdcXHo03Pll0duOVNjNYuhvuwCuMCqZIIfWEGdPYKbVoSRocKyNjUwG4cOme4UJqr0gs33-5fCddh8CCUWiDY76kgzIKNsovCTDj-R2mjnRxifTPvqcDKrGYAhWFG8HxNokwm/s400/Apple17.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq7rNQrpHfNHmzK5HfK8AfT1f-YT2CbBxAYF_jYe-Y-9GBgjunI3_iYncpLgTCmh1yKPx4uJxsdc-JvwBYnLV_bX8RElT44pMBEeSI_3bAft6MQB1ohVyUrhKEgB9sFg2cnPQQvgk1hv8e/s1600/Apple18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq7rNQrpHfNHmzK5HfK8AfT1f-YT2CbBxAYF_jYe-Y-9GBgjunI3_iYncpLgTCmh1yKPx4uJxsdc-JvwBYnLV_bX8RElT44pMBEeSI_3bAft6MQB1ohVyUrhKEgB9sFg2cnPQQvgk1hv8e/s400/Apple18.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">On an entirely unrelated note, we're just about to upload the trailer for our Home of the Year short film series. Stand by while we sort out the tech issues...</span>

Outtakes: Gerald Parsonson in the Marlborough Sounds

A little diversion for your Friday morning: these are outtakes from Paul McCredie's shoot of a bach in the Marlborough Sounds by Gerald ...

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Parsonson Architects in Dwell

<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Gerald and Kate Parsonson's holiday home on the Kapiti Coast, which Gerald designed and which won our Home of the Year award in 2001, is on the latest cover of Dwell, the US architecture magazine. </span><br /><br /><img alt="Magazine Cover" src="http://media.dwell.com/images/313*404/Dwell_June11_Cover_Web_1239x1600.jpg" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You can see a slideshow of Matthew Williams' photographs of the bach at the link </span><a href="http://www.dwell.com/slideshows/bach-to-the-beach.html?slide=1&c=y&paused=true"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here.</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If Matthew's name seems familiar, that's because he used to shoot for us until he moved to New York a few years ago. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's great to see good New Zealand architecture represented abroad. Remember you saw it in our mag first!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Another of Gerald's designs features in our upcoming June/July issue (which also contains our annual furniture Design Awards). We send our last pages of that issue to the printers tomorrow (it'll be on sale on June 6), and after that we start tackling the Home of the Year 2011 issue.</span>

Parsonson Architects in Dwell

Gerald and Kate Parsonson's holiday home on the Kapiti Coast, which Gerald designed and which won our Home of the Year award in 2001, is...

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Meet the Architects

Over the next few weeks we're hosting a series of evenings in Auckland and Wellington offering our readers the chance to come and meet the architects in our Home of the Year issue, and see them present some more of their work. The first talk is tomorrow night in Auckland, with another in Wellington on Thursday evening.<br /><br />Here are the details. Entry is free - just register by emailing the address below. Architects get 5CPD points.<br /><br />AUCKLAND<br />Tuesday August 18, 6pm<br />David Mitchell & Julie Stout<br />Mitchell & Stout Architects<br />Team McMillan BMW<br />7 Great South Road, Newmarket<br />With three appearances in the Home of the Year finals, Julie Stout and David Mitchell discuss their unique approach to creating unforgettable houses<br /><br />Tuesday August 25, 6.30pm<br />Andrea Bell<br />Bossley Architects<br />Jerry Clayton BMW<br />445 Lake Road, Takapuna<br />With two homes in the Home of the Year finals in consecutive years, Andrea Bell reveals the secrets behind her innovative, beautifully crafted designs<br /><br />Tuesday September 1, 6pm<br />Nicholas Stevens & Gary Lawson<br />Stevens Lawson Architects<br />Team McMillan BMW<br />7 Great South Road, Newmarket<br />The creators of a series of unforgettable sculptural homes reveal some of their other plans in development and discuss their ideas of what makes a great home<br /><br />Tuesday September 8, 6.30pm<br />Michael O’Sullivan<br />Bull O’Sullivan Architecture<br />Jerry Clayton BMW<br />445 Lake Road, Takapuna<br />The designer and builder of his own ingenious family home in Mangere Bridge talks about the joys and challenges of doing it himself<br /><br />WELLINGTON<br />Thursday August 20, 6.30pm<br />Gerald Parsonson<br />Parsonson Architects<br />Jeff Gray BMW<br />138 Hutt Road, Kaiwharawhara<br />After designing three baches in the Home of the Year competition, Gerald Parsonson discusses his approach to creating uniquely New Zealand homes<br /><br />TICKETS ARE FREE<br />Please register by emailing the names and email addresses of each person attending to<br />architectstalk@acpmagazines.co.nz<br /><br />Please note that by registering you are giving your consent to receive promotional offers from BMW. If you don’t wish to receive such offers, please say so in your email.

Meet the Architects

Over the next few weeks we're hosting a series of evenings in Auckland and Wellington offering our readers the chance to come and meet t...

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Our Home of the Year finalists

Sorry about the silence, everyone. We've been flat out preparing our 2009 Home of the Year issue. Which brings us to the point of today's post, which is to show you a sneak preview of the five finalists in the award. (We'll be announcing the winner on August 5, with mags on sale August 6. TV3's Campbell Live will screen a story on the finalists on their show on Monday August 3). The finalists shown here are in alphabetical order. <div><div><div><div><br />1. Andrea Bell from Pete Bossley Architects designed this big, beautifully crafted house on a clifftop in Glendowie, Auckland. It was photographed by Simon Devitt. </div><div></div><div></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360769378714087378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE-4y2SGNh3DhzLP2x90EUjSjJYxKLtgKYdsWtZH6A9TSqwj7LwpOigYrCyivLmHeNuHxXZu8MhlC0RQasHeFSx3iOEwGkBm3IuR4-yJnlMDx0SnVRjvUFrhw3PbUJJMK8-A0JWN27D_Za/s400/Bell.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 298px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br />2. Mitchell & Stout Architects designed this home on Waiheke Island, an open-plan living and kitchen area bookended by two intriguing sculptural volumes. The photograph is by Patrick Reynolds. </div><div></div><div></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360769393139092802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirC-PRPDuSVZXQGQLW7upTp9ANjY_whpeI6LFSXSNUx1S0gth2oLQmZVGBgKYLVf637hSu-Ifv82LX7jBpSebx9IKY56vdigz0l-mEtlS5Uy0M_4_K2f2kL9xdKOX5sdoaT_QwoAlf6D2t/s400/Mitchell+and+Stout.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /><br />3. Michael O'Sullivan of Bull O'Sullivan Architecture designed and built his own family home in Auckland's Mangere Bridge, which was photographed by Florence Noble. </div><div></div><div></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360769401803801554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPdiz-DlH9-1QFv5iyozxeX_XFGI8KmF6GChXO8ySNw1CGK-OkBhrVhSn8QLcPY45Hr2BEZ9iiOHsavFQxJ_x0GnXxq2Cd6npnPJrgFLO_GJR7vKO8SasIM646SEuMFbOO2jTksLFs2Edf/s400/OSullivan.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" />4. Parsonson Architects designed this simple, light-as-a-feather bach at Shoal Beach in southern Hawkes Bay. It was photographed by Paul McCredie. </div><div></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360769413058587682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaCEbEMC3hHVk3aEeqJaJM2Fdw7_MCFtk-AelPHldXp9b2lW5MVx8JSUzMNbEytUCovFv9CX3lCt5NEe0DH6wWaLK5-2pWv8Qy3csoHGtb2AZBemoyKikPDmDgvokXiLmn417qh8ot4-fb/s400/Parsonson.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 265px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></div><div>5. And Stevens Lawson Architects designed this long, low, mysterious home on Hawkes Bay's Te Mata Peak, which was photographed by Mark Smith.</div><div></div><div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360769419375681954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwb1E3rrM4w15ogL3iNS_5r65jgIhvC2kldWzcoHAU2GJptsYq1o3Dmn4HS0hMPsGZyt0cA-1SeohKJSfTwTmHy0Mrhn1LjY0PavYL-pKfEQcSBSDvppUupchQoobth8rcylCZ-IkzvqHD/s400/Stevens+Lawson.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /></div></div></div><br /><p>For those of you who don't know, the competition works like this: In April, we call for entries from architects around the country, who send us plans and photographs of recently completed projects. Then our three-person judging panel - which this year was made up of myself (HOME New Zealand ed. Jeremy Hansen), Hugh Tennent, the Wellington architect who won our Home of the Year award in 2006, fellow Wellington architect Alistair Luke, who led the restoration of Plischke's Sutch house in Brooklyn, among many other projects - chooses 10 homes for our shortlist. </p><p>We visit each of those 10 homes in person, a week on the road that involves a lot of in-depth discussion about the pros and cons of each place. After those visits, we choose the winner and four finalists to feature in the Home of the Year issue. The winning architects get a $15,000 cash prize, thanks to the generosity of our partner in the awards, BMW. </p><p>Keep an eye out for the new issue of the magazine, containing heaps more about these fantastic homes. We're sending the last pages to the printers tomorrow. </p>

Our Home of the Year finalists

Sorry about the silence, everyone. We've been flat out preparing our 2009 Home of the Year issue. Which brings us to the point of today...

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