Holocene House doesn’t just sit in the landscape—it actively regenerates it. Explore this carbon-positive oasis in Sydney.
Nestled in Beaconsfield’s bushland, Hillside Home glows like a lantern—sustainable, serene, and strikingly beautiful.
Designed for a retired couple, this home floats among the trees with minimal impact and maximum serenity
Bushland views, turquoise tiles, disappearing stairs—this pool has it all.
Get a peek inside Blairgowrie’s chic retirement retreat that defies coastal elements and inspires with timeless style.
How can a small home be energy-efficient, bushfire-resistant, and beautiful? Find out!
A unique design means that living in this home keeps you constantly in touch with the stunning natural environment.
With stunning bush and ocean views, this home is perched to soak it all in and create a space for relaxation and rejuvenation.
Surrounded by bushland, this home is off-grid and bushfire resilient to deal with its beautiful but challenging location.
A clever design captures bush views and sunlight and turns away from the neighbours so you feel like you're in a world of your own...
To create space for the kids as they grow, this new bedroom wing sits beautifully in the landscape and meets BAL requirements.
With the site's Bushfire Attack Level of Flame Zone, achieving the incredible expanses of glazing took incredible attention to detail.
This new home in a semi-rural estate balances a sense of space with a need for privacy so the shift from the farm life isn't so hard.
A thin addition to this home creates new living spaces, but the bonus is a courtyard created by leaving space between existing and new.
For tree-changers Matt and Leanne, an important part of their ideal home was making the most of their spectacular site.
A modern farmhouse for a couple with overseas relatives needs to adapt from a comfortable home for two to a home for many more.
Using the slope to its advantage, this beach house cascades down the hill and focuses your attention on the stunning coastline views.
This granny (and gramps) flat is the perfect place for a retired couple to call home: close to family, yet private and comfortable.
Sitting on an exposed hilltop, this off-grid retreat deals with a hostile landscape, but it's worth the effort for that view...
This stunning modern Australian beach house has a whole wall of glass, taking in spectacular views of the beach and headland beyond.
The clever design for this challenging site allows the home to deal with the threat of bushfire, while still taking in the views.
Living near the beach has its pros and cons. A great beach house needs to embrace the sunshine while protecting from cold ocean winds.
Working with what was already there to create a modern family home had its challenges on this bushland site in the Blue Mountains.
We're all a little bit obsessed with shipping container houses. You'll understand why once you take a look at this home...
Breaking out of the old, brown-brick home, this new glass box for living is surrounded by birdlife and the sounds of insects at dusk.
After the bushfire of 2015, Wye River slowly rebuilds. Let's hope all the new homes are as beautiful and sympathetic as this one...
Clever thinking achieves a simple timber beach house the client desired while still meeting bushfire and energy efficiency regulations.
With the option to demolish and start from scratch, MRTN Architects instead create a sensitive addition to this Victorian cottage.
A home near Noosa is designed for the area's sub-tropical climate and to maximise the owner's enjoyment of the bush setting.
Built on a challenging site with significant bushfire risk, this home enjoys amazing views over bushland in the Macedon Ranges.
"There are too many beautiful old shacks being demolished, and Austin Maynard Architects won’t be part of it."
After the 2003 Canberra bushfires, this site was rereleased. The new home explores the idea of new beginnings for a young family.
This two storey house near the beach was designed like an arrangement of stacked boxes to create protected balconies and decks.
A Melbourne home designed by Alexandra Buchanan Architecture creates a cascade of contemporary family living spaces in a bushfire area.
Scribbly Gums on the site of this new family home inspire the use of timber internally and help to generate the colour palette.
This modern farmhouse combines a manager's residence, stable and self contained two-bedroom apartment in finely detailed modern sheds.
Two avid climbers, a professor and a gallery owner, teamed up to build a house in the Blue Mountains to host fellow climbers and artists.
Seal Rocks House takes the qualities of a family home and distills them down to the basics to suit leisure and the serene seaside site.
Like the slow food movement, Pirates Bay House is a reaction against our hectic lives. It's a home for slow living on Australia's Mornington Peninsula.
Rammed Limestone is the perfect material for Wall and Wall House — locally sourced, beautiful texture and natural colour and high thermal mass.
The site of Invermay House has a great view over Ballarat, but vegetation hid the view. This new home cantilevers to capture it back.
\"This exhilarating location with its towering eucalyptus trees and diminishing scars from that phenomenal day required a design response equally as unique.\
Southern Highlands House's new tiny work space, feels more like an art piece than an office - well proportioned, beautifully curved and effortlessly simple.
In true glamping style Kurreki Beach Retreat has real beds but opens completely onto a courtyard and uses mosquito nets and shower curtains where necessary.
Bushfire regulations are a challenge. Homes can end up like bunkers. Chenchow Little's Stewart House is a bushfire proof house that doesn't sacrifice looks.
