A New Zealand architect and his clients were content to play by their own rules when it came to creating a coastal family retreat.

Two architects with a shared love of landscape and tactile materials have hand-built an affordable home in Fish Creek almost entirely from timber salvaged from homes destined for demolition.

Architects Daniel Raymond and Thomas Martin of rama used shipping containers to overcome the challenges of the brief and constraints of this bushland site.

Architect Ben Daly spared no time, effort or thought when it came to carefully restoring a New Zealand railway cottage.

Bruny Island Cabin was created to satisfy the client’s yearning for retreat and renewal; a space where she could relish life’s simple pleasures: reading, playing music and stargazing.

A family finds harmony with the natural world through their meticulously composed, sustainability-focused country home.

Drawing on the values, traditions and textures of agricultural history, this New Zealand home pays reverence to the land.

This bold extension to a countryside Victorian cottage cleverly reuses materials and creates a warm family environment topped off with serious sustainable credentials.

Edition Office’s award-winning home for an architecturally adventurous Fish Creek couple has used the constraints of its elevated site to create an expandable home of protected pavilions and courtyards with killer views to Wilson’s Prom.

Shacky finds a way to use the tiny house phenomenon to help out farmers and give “city people” a taste of the country.