This two-storey Fitzroy North home uses its laneway boundary to create a lush, private inner-city oasis with a pool at its heart.
A clever extension brings new life to this Edwardian home—wait until you see the double-height atrium!
An inverted design solution is a thoughtful response to a steep site.
Heritage homes meet modern lifestyles in this clever Hawthorn East redesign.
A double-height void and timber framing create a serene, airy pavilion.
Prefab magic! These houses arrived by barge and were installed in two days.
How did heritage restrictions impact this renovation? Learn how clever design created a stylish, spacious home without expanding.
From 1970s blond brick ugly duckling, this home has been spectacularly transformed into an elegant swan...
This clever home injects flexibility, functionality and sustainability into a seemingly impossible 27 square metre footprint...
This renovation by a brother-sister team showcases the magic that happens when architect and builder collaborate seamlessly.
Innovative design transforms a challenging south-facing block into a bright, inviting home.
A central courtyard helps this home harness northern light, retain the garden, and keeps the floor plan flexible for future change.
An incredible home for a much-loved grandmother allows her to live independently (but close by). It's better than a retirement village!
In contrast to the neighbouring weatherboard houses, this crisp, modern modular home makes a huge statement in this Melbourne street.
Designing a family home is challenging because the family's needs change as they grow, that's why you have to plan for change.
This double storey home is designed to look like a single storey home so it fits into its heritage neighbourhood.
This modern home in an historic neighbourhood was designed by an architect as a home for him and his family.
This renovation shines with a light well bringing light deep into the house, bright red accents and pops of personality throughout...
Thanks to a double-height space and an expansive openable wall of glass to capture the view, this home feels positively spacious.
Period ornamentation out the front, contemporary simplicity out the back. This home makes a beautiful transition from old to new.
Using the colours of an 18th Century fire starting kit as inspiration, Breathe Architecture create a dramatic inner-city space.
Despite strict heritage controls and a tight site, Durbach Block Jaggers Architects manage to deliver this charming and bright home.
Home to a professional couple and Biggles the cat, this modern design aims to enhance the owners daily living experience. And succeeds.
Shmukler House by Tribe Studio is conceived as a series of boxes suspended in a large shed-like space.
Even with close neighbours, carefully positioned skylights and double-height spaces make this home feel private, bright and spacious.
Built on top of an existing brick double garage, Stradwick House feels more spacious thanks to double height spaces and large windows.
Renovating an inner bayside family home to be flexible as the family grows and subtly remind the owners of time spent on beach holidays.
Tennis Avenue Residence new timber pavilion, added sensitively to the rear of a humble old cottage feels like living in a modern treehouse.
Off form concrete draws on the solidity of an original masonry structure whilst introducing a new materiality at this home in Glebe.
The design of Orange Grove House is so good the clients couldn't stand to sell as they'd planned and decided to move in instead!
Sled House sits in two sleds making relocating it with a tractor a cinch. The whole area is within a coastal erosion zone; All structures must be removable.
Tattoo House takes the conflicting wishes of the client, neighbors and council and creates a surprisingly leafy compromise everyone is delighted with.
This family want to live in their home forever. They just need an architect to create a home to suit them for years to come -- in just 3.6 meters width.
Elliott Ripper House is a prime example of how a well designed, harmonious extension can provide much more than extra floor space.
Parure House in Melbourne's inner suburb Kensington is a matching set of separate architectural ideas. It displays a richness of detail and experience.
Raven Street House brings new meaning to 'open-plan' with curtains, shutters and dazzling colored glass where the walls should be. There's even an indoor tree!
An unashamedly modern extension manages to integrate old and new by putting a modern spin on materials and colors from the original home.
A modest, cement clad building sits deep on a north facing bank opening to the landscape and overlooking the valley and ocean below.
A new living \'pod\' provides more than space at Mountford Road - bringing light, volume, air and dramatic results to this small-scale project.
Despite prescriptive council requirements, 10 (!) adjoining neighbors and a difficult orientation, this home defies the odds to become a light, welcoming retreat.
The narrow (3.9 meter) Erskineville House gets a spacious and light makeover thanks to a double height, multi-functional light-well.
Everyone needs a bit of sunshine in their lives. That's why Bow House goes out of its way to let the sunshine in.
Tackling difficult topography, a heavily treed site and a modest budget, Blackpool House defiantly lofts amongst the treetops - a modest, modern treehouse.
Talk about a constrained site - this light-filled addition is a small inner city block sandwiched between 14 adjacent properties.
Law Street House is constructed from a surprising material - plate steel. Inside, a double height light shaft encourages sunlight to dance across the walls.
Architect Peter Miglis lists “light, space, and air” as the elements that form great architecture; he has incorporated all three into his own home.
In this case, the Green House effect is the impact light and air can make to a family home for a florist…
A pulley system extending through the atrium of this House Bruce Alexander is designed so the owners can store bicycles and winch them out of view.
Like all good beach houses, Marcus Beach House explores lightness, filtering natural breezes and integrating indoor/outdoor spaces.
A new rear extension, much of which is under the existing house, creates a new-found connection to the backyard on this sloping site.
A tight inner-city site is transformed with double height spaces and floor-to-ceiling, seamlessly connecting the indoors and outdoors.
On a site covered in mature trees, Under Pohutukawa House is designed to represent the stumps of trees removed for construction.
A Collection of Spaces new spaces arranged around two courtyards revitalises a traditional worker's cottage without compromising its historical significance.
A mirror-lined void brings light deep into a square floor plan and above spatially divides the living and dining spaces without the need for walls.
A new house set in a compact urban site, Woollahra House has a relaxed yet rich garden landscape of indoor and outdoor rooms.
Concrete House features a tapered concrete second story which focuses the view of a garden and the city beyond.
A tiny terrace is transformed thanks to a new neighbouring addition that compliments and contrasts the original.
Vader House emerges from behind its high boundary wall to disrupt Fitzroy's typical roofline and breathe new life into this Victorian Terrace.
