Titirangi Tate

Architect Chris Tate’s Titirangi dream house featured in the Telegraph‘s property pages this month. Tate’s home sits 13 feet above a gully at its highest point, anchored by 16 poles in the earth. The effect is like a glass box floating in the treetops; its clean lines a stark contrast to the wilds outside. “I wanted it to be modernist, simple, to make the environment paramount and the building secondary,” said Tate, who has been a practising architect for only a year. “Working with such a beautiful landscape, you really don’t want to stuff it up.”