Grand Designs NZ

Concrete Californian. A concrete, steel and glass citadel above a popular Auckland beach combines austere functionality with luxury living

Lake Ohau. A cherished family holiday home at Lake Ōhau is rebuilt after destruction and near death experience.

Waiheke Wonder. Plans for an elegant “empty nest” home on Waiheke Island are swamped by a sea of mud and a tsunami of rising construction costs.

In the Waitaki Valley, Michael and Olivia Pavelitch discover they have their work cut out for them when they embark on breathing life into an historic rabbiters’ cottage.

When John and Sharon Russell bought their vertiginous site above Queenstown for their shared-ownership holiday house, they thought their biggest challenge would be signing up other owners…

An hour inland from Geraldine is where arborist Li Tane and his landscaper wife Michelle are building their rammed earth, off-Grid, mountain home for their family

On a steep site in the wilds of Mahurangi, just north of Auckland, architect Felicity Brenchly is prepared to do whatever it takes to get their family home built.

Josh and Esther Perriam have always wanted to build their family home in New Brighton but with a limited budget will the design live up to their dream?

Eternal globetrotter Tessa Kingsbury’s dream is to convert an old Dunedin Sunday school into her forever home, but it comes with a twist – she’s incorporating a glasshouse into the heart of it.

Mangawhai Danish. When Matthew and Rosemarie Dunning decide to put down roots in Mangawhai, they throw convention out the window and embrace their son’s intriguing concept of a brick house in a sand dune.