New Zealand TIDA Homes
For more than 30 years, Trends has promoted great home design ideas through its print, digital and online media.
The Trends International Design Awards – TIDAs – take that involvement to the next level with the search for the best kitchens, bathrooms and homes across a number of the countries where Trends has a presence.
Strong house in a strong land
Environments don't come more rugged and beautiful than the surrounds of Lake Wanaka in the Southern Alps. This home design echoes that ruggedness while offering cosy interiors to beat the mountain weather
Romantic French farmhouse exterior – but step inside!
Romantic and rustic on the outside, this home kind of changes its tune when you enter its dynamic, sculptural interiors. The design loosely comprises three visually separate but conne...
Using commercial construction material injects drama into this new home
Tilt-slab construction and 3m-high floor-to-ceiling glass come together to shape a spectacular home, where the views and interiors jostle for attention
Contemporary living meets a cottage look on this new home
Modern and spacious inside, this home pays homage to the local historic cottage aesthetic on the outside – a traditional mono pitch roof, the use of local schist stone and dark-s...
Top to bottom – major home renovation creates a modern interior with everyday luxuries
You have the home you want ... but the look? Not so much. The owner of this home put thoughts into action – the result, a reinvented home, perf...
Modern extension celebrates contrast with existing traditional villa
It's an age-old renovation/extension conundrum, do you blend your addition in or have it stand out in sharp contrast? The latter was the case on this project, where ...
Playful, angular home makes all the right connections
What's in a house design's orientation? Answer: everything, or at the least it plays an integral part as this surprising, in-tune house by Urban Function Architecture demonstrates
Developed with design continuity throughout
Three state-of-the-art homes are staggered on a sloping site to catch all-day sun
Three-pavilion home connects with mountain landscape through material palette and form
Featuring local schist and looking to Lake Wanaka and Treble Cone skifields, this gable-roofed home is fully immersed in its scenery
Modernising renovation creates open-plan living zone at rear of home
From retention tanks to digging the garage in under the house, a lot of behind the scenes work went into this expansive, lifestyle-changing renovation
Shipshape
Gabled pavilions used in new home design help overcome planning and site restrictions
Large house on difficult steep slope is partly dug into the hillside to create a basement platform for the upper levels
This multi-level house by Mason & Wales transforms into a glass and steel pavilion on the top levels, op...