The latest issue of San Francisco-based Dwell magazine is a focus on Australian and New Zealand homes, with the coverline "Why are the World's Best Houses in Australia and New Zealand?"

New Zealand architects are prominently featured: there's an eight-page feature on Bronwen Kerr and Pete Ritchie's home near Queenstown (featured in HOME New Zealand in our February/March 2008 issue), as well as homes by Strachan Group Architects (a Mangawhai home that was a finalist in our Home of the Year award in 2005), Stevens Lawson, and Herbst Architects.

You can view the Kerr Ritchie feature here:

www.dwell.com/homes/new

And you can see more of Pete and Bronwen's Drift Bay house by viewing Paul McCredie's photographs on their site:

http://www.kerrritchie.com/

Not all the features from this issue have been posted on the Dwell site, so you might just have to buy the mag!