Enviably positioned on a headland on Waiheke Island in New Zealand with views in all directions, this house was the 2013 winner of Home of the Year. Designed by Stevens Lawson Architects as a series of pods that, in their grouping together, create another intermediate space in between these distinct silos. It is in this casual and organic transitional space that most of the living of the house occurs, and here too is the cleverly camouflaged functional kitchen. Photography: Mark Smith.