New Homes

Datum House uses the scale and proportions of its neighbours as the starting point for a modern and light-filled home.

A combination of bricks, timber, corrugated iron and translucent sheeting help this home complement its semi-rural landscape.

What do you do with a triangular site? Perhaps the best solution is to think outside of the box. Or triangle, as the case may be...

As Torquay becomes increasingly cosmopolitan with more permanent residents architects are rethinking the traditional Aussie beach house.

Just a short walk from the beach and surrounded by Moona trees, a central courtyard is the link between this home and the landscape.

Tucked away in Noosa's bushy hinterland is a tent house - a place that gives the sense of permanent camping without sacrifice...

Dubbed the Urban Cottage, this modern take on a workers' cottage feels fresh and contemporary in-spite of its early colonial roots.

Black sheep. Odd one out. Dark horse. Whatever you want to call it, there's something different about this home - and we love it!

A home near Noosa is designed for the area's sub-tropical climate and to maximise the owner's enjoyment of the bush setting.

A modern retreat for an elderly couple built on the family property - the perfect spot to enjoy retirement close to family.

Built for a family bursting with creative souls, this shack needed to be as stylish and as interesting as the people living in it.

Built from recycled timber and rusting steel, this Mt Duneed home already looks old, yet is built to last with little maintenance.

Built on a challenging site with significant bushfire risk, this home enjoys amazing views over bushland in the Macedon Ranges.

This striking house of contrasting black and white with touches of warming timber is exciting and dynamic in-spite of its compact size.

Staff quarters never looked so good. This prefab house is a modern and comfortable place to wind down after a long day on the farm.

These two homes are built on a pier structure that highlights their unique creek-side location near the Mornington foreshore.

House_B is essentially a C-shape, wrapping around a central courtyard to maximise light and breezes to the home. That gets an A+ from us.

Inspired by Mid-century design with a touch of Aussie shed, this stylish shack is the perfect combination of cool and practical.

In contrast to the neighbouring weatherboard houses, this crisp, modern modular home makes a huge statement in this Melbourne street.

A home set in an expansive garden is divided and sheltered into quadrants by cross-shaped Gabion baskets, creating a variety of spaces.

Designing a family home is challenging because the family's needs change as they grow, that's why you have to plan for change.

To construct this off-grid home on Victoria's French Island, prefabricated modules had to be transported by barge to the isolated site.

Living in a barn is one thing, but living in a barn in the city? Well that sounds absurd, but it's a reality for this lucky family.

For cost efficiency this project creates two identical houses, but thanks to a clever folded facade each home fits the site.

After the 2003 Canberra bushfires, this site was rereleased. The new home explores the idea of new beginnings for a young family.

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.

Supporting the clients' desire for a sustainable lifestyle, this off-grid home uses passive solar design to reduce energy consumption.

If you want the look and feel of luxury at your home, it pays to think a bit smaller and pay attention to the details.

With sliding doors and a fold down bed, a rumpus room/third bedroom provides built in flexibility while reducing the overall footprint.

This family home is nestled amongst the gums, cantilevering over the sloped site so it feels more like a treehouse than a regular home.

In Christchurch, a city still recovering from a devastating series of earthquakes, many are rethinking how they use their public space.

From the street this modern take on the other single storey cottage in the neighbourhood. But things get interesting quickly...

A young Wellington couple with a modest budget and small and challenging block chose a Box™ design-build for their first home.

How to deal with a small block? Don't sacrifice the backyard, stack it on top of the house and you've got a sophisticated roof deck!

Clad in COLORBOND® steel with a contemporary take on the traditional pitched roof, this prefab house looks right at home in the bush.

With an ageing population our homes must be designed to allow us to live in them as long as possible. This house shows us how.

Melaleuca House was designed to embrace an outdoor lifestyle for a family relocating from Darwin to more rural Howard Springs.

Waitpinga Retreat designed as a casual getaway immersed in the natural beauty of nature looks and feels very Australian.

Built on a site with huge sentimental value, this home built for an elderly WWII veteran is low-maintenance, accessible and secure.

A home for entertainers who also travel a lot. Claremont Residence expands for parties or locks down when the owners are away.

These two cabins have become something much grander than the typical granny flat or affordable beach shack they're usually used for...

With the sun and a majestic tree in one direction and views of a distant nature reserve in the other, this home manages to have it all.

With copious amounts of timber inside and out, this modern interpretation of a workers cottage feels natural, warm and welcoming.

This duplex development isn't what we have come to expect. It actively avoids placing garages on the street as an homage to the car.

Watch the clouds float by in this home which has an unexpected sense of space and light in spite of its narrow, overshadowed site.

Built almost entirely from concrete, this striking new home makes a solid statement. It's also pretty good advertising for the owners!

When this couple retired the farm they wanted a more manageable and contemporary home that incorporated memories of their past life.

Searching for a sustainable alternative to urban sprawl, REFRESH*DESIGN have developed an infill-development branded ‘my gardenhouse’.

This two storey house near the beach was designed like an arrangement of stacked boxes to create protected balconies and decks.

With a green roof and other sustainable elements this beach-side residence touches the earth lightly physically and metaphorically.

Carefully planned around a central courtyard to maximise light and connection to the garden while minimising its impact on the street.

Inspired by the surrounding '60s estate, James Russell Architects takes the humble breeze block to new heights of style.

New Zealand home and writer's studio fuses the look of rural farm buildings and the dramatic local landscape into one sculptural form.

The curse of the modern open-plan home? Noise. With flexible social spaces, parents in this house can entertain separately to the kids.

Thanks to a double-height space and an expansive openable wall of glass to capture the view, this home feels positively spacious.

The most minimal house you could imagine - a platform for living within a translucent shell, set in a beautiful natural landscape.

The perfect retreat for a director and camera operator in the film industry, this home has no shortage of cinematic drama.

A compact weatherboard cottage explodes from the sides of a prefabricated shed to provide space for an illustrator to live and work.

This home is "designed to give the same carefree relaxing ambience as a bach - step in, kick off your shoes and grab a glass of wine."

A warm new home for a young family wraps around a courtyard space to create a protected area for the kids to play and the family to enjoy the stunning ocean views.

Studio 19 are at it again, designing two stunning community houses for a not-for-profit organisation in New Zealand.

Small in both budget and footprint, but clever thinking and innovative solutions have produced a home which ticks all the boxes...

A magnificent 100 year old fig tree and a small creek are treated as sacred elements in this home which embraces its environment.

There's not much diversity (or sustainability) in your average project home. With a bit of luck, Erpingham House will change all that.

In the Californian desert temperatures can soar to over 40 degrees. This family built a home without air-conditioning - are they mad?

The smallest house on the block contains one of the largest rooms. What this house lacks in square metres it makes up for in volume.

We don't often feature multi-residential projects. But when we do, they're beautifully innovative projects like this one.

A heritage-listed chicory kiln on Phillip Island is transformed into a delightfully playful residence for a couple.

While this modern farm house feels shiny and new, traditional elements like the generous verandah gives it the best of both worlds.

The use of up to 75 per cent recycled timber as structure and cladding brings warmth and variety to this modern beach house.

Sweeping views of hills, beach, rocks and ocean inspired the fan shaped plan of Fleurieu Beach House - a model for coastal living.

Completely off-grid and raised up to avoid occasional flooding, Platypus Bend House cantilevers spectacularly over a bushland clearing.

A Melbourne home designed by Alexandra Buchanan Architecture creates a cascade of contemporary family living spaces in a bushfire area.

Designed to sit long and low and recede into the landscape, this beach house still incorporates enough fun to make it a stand out.

Despite strict heritage controls and a tight site, Durbach Block Jaggers Architects manage to deliver this charming and bright home.

Everyone loves to get away to the beach for the weekend, luckily this house can accomodate all of the extended friends and family.

Scribbly Gums on the site of this new family home inspire the use of timber internally and help to generate the colour palette.

Sandwiched between weatherboard cottages in Brunswick East, C House breaks with convention to create a warm, unique and nuanced home.

This modern beach house wraps around courtyards and open spaces to blur the lines between inside and out - perfect for a beach retreat.

A new home in a neighbourhood of large houses scales back the status quo to provide ‘just the right amount of space’ for a family.

By creating outdoor covered spaces for dining and car parking Laneway House manages to pack a lot of space onto a tight site.

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.

Located in a tight lane way in Fitzroy, Little Gore Street Studio is a truly unique response to urban densification...

Previously the site of some outgrown kit homes, three seperate but clustered buildings provide space for all generations of the family.

Hilltop House is a small, carefully crafted dwelling on the steep eastern slopes of Pittwater, a waterway to the north of Sydney.

This welcoming house has a verandah so generous it blurs the line between a courtyard house and a traditional Australian verandah.

In a natural clearing of bushland, this home with simple detailing and an earthy palette captures the spirit and joy of camping.

This timber-clad four bedroom beach-side family home is perched on a steep dune in a quiet pocket of the Mornington Peninsula region.

On a windy and exposed site, nestled behind a hill, sits a metal clad nugget; a home for a gold prospector and his family...

Home to a professional couple and Biggles the cat, this modern design aims to enhance the owners daily living experience. And succeeds.

This off-the-grid home is close to the beach in the Daintree Rainforest — an ancient ecosystem deserving a thoughtful approach to site.

The timber-clad Links Courtyard House prioritises simplicity over size leaving more of the budget for beautiful indulgent finishes.

A timber exoskeleton-like structure allows Great Barrier House to open onto its surrounds while lifting towards a hill to the west.

Perched on top of a hill overlooking the stunning ocean along the Victoria's Great Ocean Road is a home that balances heavy and light.

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.

Brick Bay House's L-shaped plan has a number of benefits - sheltering from winds, blocking road noise and embracing the ocean view.