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Explore New Zealand’s best baches
Here are four of Aotearoa’s best lakeside and beachfront baches.
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Discover four of New Zealand's most stunning architect-designed baches, each uniquely embracing its landscape. The Dart by Studio John Irving Architects is a dramatic, cedar-clad triangular form on a Mangawhai cliff top.
At Lake Rotoiti, a concrete bunker-style home by Evelyn McNamara Architecture offers a moody lakeside retreat. The award-winning Hill to Horizon House at Otama Beach balances privacy and openness, while Studio2 Architects' Shift House in Whangamata reinterprets the classic bach with a sheltered central courtyard.
The Dart by Studio John Iriving Architects
Lake Rotoiti House, designed by Evelyn McNamara Architecture with interiors by Source and Style. Image: Paul Brandon
Lake Rotoiti House by Evelyn McNamara Architecture (with interiors by Source and Style; built by Insight Carpentry)
Hill to Horizon House at Otama Beach, Coromandel, the 2021 Rural Home of the Year. Image: Paul Brandon
Hill to Horizon House by Studio Brick Architects and Lloyd Hartley Architects
This U-shaped bach on a beachfront site in Whangamatā has a north-facing courtyard at its centre, with sightlines through the living area to the coast beyond. Image: Paul Brandon
Shift House by Studio2 Architects
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