Grand Designs New Zealand - Season 7

Season 7
Architect Tom Webster meets people all over Aotearoa who are challenging architecture, geography, sustainability, technology, and even standard building practices to create innovative, cutting edge homes.
Episodes

Chatham Islands Dream Home
After renting the local schoolhouse for 20 years, Chatham Islanders John and Bridget Preece are finally embarking on their own dream build. But will the challenges of building on a remote island prove to be their undoing?

Ōkaihau

Lake House

Round House

Container Build, Waiheke Island
Tony Hodge discovers that building with the humble container is not as easy as he thought it would be on his unforgiving, vertiginous. bush clad site on Waiheke Island.

Passive House, Featherston
In Featherston, Swedish architect Josefine Watterson tackles the challenge of creating a Passive House for her young family in pursuit of both a more sustainable lifestyle.

Castello
In North Canterbury Phil Metaxas takes on the ambitious task of completing another man's dream - that of a post-modernist castle.

Sand Dune, Coromandel Peninsula
Season Final: Charles Webster, a man with a passion for technical engineering, and his wife Yvonne pour their energy into creating a home in the shape of a sand dune on the Coromandel Peninsula.
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