Home of the Year 2013 - the finalists

The Home of the Year judges have completed their deliberations, and the finalists in our 18th annual Home of the Year award have been selected. We're delighted to present them for you here (with thanks to our Home of the Year partner, Altherm Window Systems). 

The six homes in this post will all appear in full in our Home of the Year issue, which will be on newsstands on April 4 - in which we'll also reveal which house has scooped the $15,000 first prize. 

Huge thanks to our rigorous judges, Lance Herbst of Auckland's Herbst Architects and Cathleen McGuigan, the New York-based editor in chief of Architectural Record magazine, who accompanied HOME editor Jeremy Hansen on visits to all the shortlisted houses last week. 

Here are the finalists, in no particular order. 

This highly crafted home (below) by three-time Home of the Year winners Stevens Lawson Architects is on Waiheke Island, with carefully framed views of the Hauraki Gulf and Onetangi Beach. Photo by Mark Smith.

In Auckland, architect Jane Priest of Lochore Priest Architects deployed a warm modernist vocabulary in designing her own family home (below) to accommodate herself, her husband and their two daughters. Photo by Jackie Meiring. 
 

In Christchurch, Duval O'Neill of Herriot + Melhuish designed a sensitive renovation of an early 1960s home by Ernest Kalnins (below) with incredible views of the ocean and the Southern Alps. Photo by Russell Kleyn.

The four architectural graduates from Patchwork Architecture designed and then spent a year building this charming, low-budget home near Whanganui (below). Photo by Paul McCredie.
 

Auckland's Glamuzina Paterson Architects devised a smart response to a huge landscape in creating this courtyard house near Wanaka (below). Photo by Patrick Reynolds. 
 

Last but certainly not least, Wellington's Tennent Brown Architects designed this house (below) near Nelson (with assistance from landscape architect Megan Wraight of Wraight & Associates, who helped devise the sensitive terracing scheme for the home's pavilions). Photo by Paul McCredie. 
 

We're delighted at how varied the lineup of finalists is, not only in their geographic locations, but in their budgets and the approaches their architects have taken, too. We can't wait to show you more of them in our Home of the Year issue. Our thanks to all the architects and homeowners who entered the competition and agreed to let the jury see their homes. We feel very privileged to be able to share these great works of architecture with you. 

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Tickets are $75 and can be purchased at the link here. Numbers are strictly limited to 50 participants, so don't delay. We're really looking forward to the day, so hope you can join us.

Home of the Year 2013 shortlist

We're delighted to announce the homes shortlisted for the Home of the Year 2013. 

Next week, HOME editor Jeremy Hansen will accompany fellow judges Lance Herbst of Herbst Architects and Cathleen McGuigan, the New York-based editor of Architectural Record magazine, on a trip around the country to visit the shortlisted homes and choose the winner of New Zealand's richest architectural prize (the winning architects get a cheque for $15,000, thanks to our Home of the Year partner Altherm Window Systems). 

The shortlisted homes were chosen from an open entry process - not all of them have been photographed by our crack team yet, hence a bit of patchiness among the shots.

In Auckland, this family home (below) by Lochore Priest Architects is one of the 11 homes on our Home of the Year 2013 shortlist. 

In Christchurch, we'll be visiting this project (below) by Herriot + Melhuish, a renovation and expansion of an early 1960s home by Ernst A. Kalnins, with landscape architecture by Wraight & Associates. Photograph by Russell Kleyn.

This courtyard-style home near Wanaka (below) by Glamuzina Paterson Architects is one of the four South Island homes on our shortlist. Photograph by Samuel Hartnett. 

Back in Auckland, we'll visit this home (below) by previous Home of the Year finalist Daniel Marshall. Photograph by Patrick Reynolds.
 

Three-time Home of the Year winners Stevens Lawson Architects made the shortlist with this home on Waiheke Island (below). Photograph by Mark Smith.
 

This shortlisted entry by Athfield Architects is on Auckland's Takapuna Beach. Photograph by Simon Devitt. (It's the home illuminated by the sun at left, in case you're wondering).
 

The capital city's only shortlisted entry this year is a home by Home of the Year 2001 winner Gerald Parsonson (below). Photograph by Paul McCredie. 
 

The members of Patchwork Architecture, all recent graduates, designed and built this home (below) in Whanganui. 

Back down south, we'll be visiting this shortlisted home near Wanaka (below) by Anna-Marie Chin of Crosson Clarke Carnachan Chin Architects. Photograph by Patrick Reynolds.
 

Tennent Brown Architects, who won the Home of the Year title in 2006, have this home near Nelson (below) on the Home of the Year 2013 shortlist. 
 

Last but not least, Hamish Monk of Hamish Monk Architecture features for the first time on the Home of the Year shortlist with this house in Remuera.

Follow HOME editor Jeremy Hansen on Twitter at this link for updates from the Home of the Year 2013 judging tour, starting Monday February 18.

The winner of the Home of the Year 2013 will be announced in our Home of the Year issue, on newsstands April 4. As always, our sincere gratitude to our Home of the Year partner, Altherm Window Systems, for making all this possible.