HomeGround : The Story of a Building that Changes Lives

A celebration of HomeGround, the Auckland City Mission's unique and visionary wrap-around social services complex, which opened in early 2022 after being a dream for over 20 years.

Photographed by Mark Smith and with text by both renowned writer Simon Wilson and Professor Deidre Brown and Dr Karamia Muller of the School of Architecture at the University of Auckland, it is the portrait of a remarkable building designed by leading architecture practice Stevens Lawson. This book represents an enduring record of a remarkable building built for a remarkable organisation, created through the aroha and vision of many. It documents and records a key moment in Aotearoa New Zealand, when a visionary social services agency, a committed architecture practice, courageous funders, and skilled construction specialists combined forces to create a facility that will transform the delivery of services to, and create hope for a better future for, Auckland's most vulnerable.