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
An inverted design solution is a thoughtful response to a steep site.
Bushland views, turquoise tiles, disappearing stairs—this pool has it all.
This home has a heritage listed Fig Tree in the backyard! Rather than see it as a problem, the architects saw the opportunity!
Where possible, renovating is a great choice, but sometimes it becomes clear that building a new home is the best option…
A modern retreat for an elderly couple built on the family property - the perfect spot to enjoy retirement close to family.
This modern home in an historic neighbourhood was designed by an architect as a home for him and his family.
This family home is nestled amongst the gums, cantilevering over the sloped site so it feels more like a treehouse than a regular home.
If you love '60s style, decor and art, you'll have to take a look at this swinging transformation on the Gold Coast.
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 a green roof and other sustainable elements this beach-side residence touches the earth lightly physically and metaphorically.
Thanks to a double-height space and an expansive openable wall of glass to capture the view, this home feels positively spacious.
This extension continues a tradition of relaxed, colourful and small-scaled modifications which have been occurring for generations.
Small in both budget and footprint, but clever thinking and innovative solutions have produced a home which ticks all the boxes...
Each room of this addition steps down with the contours of the site, while the plan zigzags to access light and connect to the garden.
Sweeping views of hills, beach, rocks and ocean inspired the fan shaped plan of Fleurieu Beach House - a model for coastal living.
A Melbourne home designed by Alexandra Buchanan Architecture creates a cascade of contemporary family living spaces in a bushfire area.
Despite strict heritage controls and a tight site, Durbach Block Jaggers Architects manage to deliver this charming and bright home.
Scribbly Gums on the site of this new family home inspire the use of timber internally and help to generate the colour palette.
Hilltop House is a small, carefully crafted dwelling on the steep eastern slopes of Pittwater, a waterway to the north of Sydney.
This timber-clad four bedroom beach-side family home is perched on a steep dune in a quiet pocket of the Mornington Peninsula region.
Brick Bay House's L-shaped plan has a number of benefits - sheltering from winds, blocking road noise and embracing the ocean view.
Herbst Architects continue their search for the perfect beach bach — Castle Rock Beach House is dramatic in spite of its simplicity…
To preserve the bushy site, Cora House was built off-site and then carried onto site by hand - a remarkable feat of ingenuity and preservation.
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 treehouse in Separation Creek enjoys panoramic views, perched on a steep forested hillside above the Great Ocean Road and Bass Strait.
This superb Mountain Retreat utilises local stone to minimise impact to the external environment, but maximise the internal environment.
Not every renovation project is a success. Luckily Beeston Street House has been recalibrated — from unsuccessful to a real delight.
In Wallaby Lane House, a family seeking a tree change find a new, more self-sufficient way of living. The home makes the most of their rural site.
At Balmoral House, carefully orchestrated windows ensure the home feels light and overlooks lush foliage, while avoiding overlooking neighbours.
A 1960s Architect-designed home undergoes 21st Century transformation into a gracious new house fit for modern living.
If you like living alfresco, you'll love the way Northbridge House 2 takes advantage of Sydney's climate to maximise indoor and outdoor spaces.
One of the challenges at Waiatarua House was to giving the home a sense of modesty and poetry in the sensitive bush reserve.
Incorporating the qualities of a traditional farmhouse ensures this modern farmhouse will feel like a home from the get-go.
The compact Highway House takes full advantage of its difficult, but dramatic site — sitting lightly over Hobart and the Derwent River…
\"This exhilarating location with its towering eucalyptus trees and diminishing scars from that phenomenal day required a design response equally as unique.\
This home is tucked into lush forest on New Zealand’s Waiheke Island. Entry is via a wooden draw bridge! And that's just the beginning…
A house inspired by 20th Century naval camouflage. There's something you don't hear everyday…
Dramatic topography, bush setting and diverse climatic conditions were the driving forces in this environmentally friendly design.
On a magnificent, but challenging site, Tinbeerwah House is a beautiful, economical home that sits lightly on the land.
This coastal cottage proves that quality always trumps quantity. The small house will age gracefully thanks to quality materials.
A modest, cement clad building sits deep on a north facing bank opening to the landscape and overlooking the valley and ocean below.
Eco-friendly Bruny Shore House reaches out from one of the steepest parts of the site to take in the dramatic Tasmanian coastline.
This modern replacement for a derelict weatherboard cottage takes full advantage of the sun, the surf and views of the rolling hills.
Tackling difficult topography, a heavily treed site and a modest budget, Blackpool House defiantly lofts amongst the treetops - a modest, modern treehouse.
Tucked away on a treed site on Australia's beautiful Great Ocean Road, Treehouse takes in stunning ocean and tree views.
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!
The Dragonfly is a self-contained addition to an existing holiday home. It maximizes views and appreciation of the site as a model for compact living.
Mount Ninderry House is a sustainable house that takes full advantage of its stunning natural setting without the extra cost. And check out that pool!
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.
A single tea tree on the site of this beach house became the focus of the project. The aim became to showcase nature, rather than try to dominate and control it.
Level changes in this home inspired its name, Jack and Jill House. It has fairytale-esque fun by the bucketful -- and not a broken crown to be seen...
You don't get homes much more unusual than Cocoon -- a zeppelin-shaped home lofts above its steep site, nestled in the canopy of Australian native treetops.
Clad in burnt timber and weathered steel sheets, Pacific House is a beautiful house that takes full advantage of the dramatic site.
Set in a lush tropical rainforest, Planchonella House, is a raw and honest home that takes full advantage of its incredible views.
Embracing the morning sun and bay breezes, Christian Street House is comfortable year-round by making the most of Brisbane's climate.
S_House divides a long thin lot into two gardens. Unlike a conventional home, S_House embraces both front and rear gardens.
McKenzie House uses the same 4x3 metre grid of the surrounding Apple Orchard to ensure it feels harmonious and connected to its surrounds.
At Humbug Studio the striped canvas However, these canvas stripes are in fact deck chairs from which to view paintings hanging in the studio.
A new rear extension, much of which is under the existing house, creates a new-found connection to the backyard on this sloping site.
In accordance with a local planning law, Arrowtown House is a series of small buildings similar to the the surrounding historic sheds.
Architect Will Harkness placed this holiday home carefully among a number of established Gum Trees to take advantage of the view.
Venus Bay Bach is a beach home built on a tight budget, but spacious enough to house family and friends for the weekend. And it doesn't ignore the views...
The narrow Left-Over-Space House demonstrates what can be achieved on the myriad of ‘left-over’ spaces in our inner-cities.
Hereston Gardenhouse pops up in a disused back yard and demonstrates a way to make cities more dense and (importantly) sustainable.
A modular home constructed of engineered timber (instead of steel) is the perfect fit for a steel slope in New Zealand's seismic zone.
In this case, the Green House effect is the impact light and air can make to a family home for a florist…
An original modernist home is extended out and up to create more flexible space for the modern family.
James Russell Architects' distinctive tropical style shines through in this climate-sensitive weatherboard house extension.
When there's snow on the slopes, there's no better place to head after a long day than this finely crafted ski lodge. There's even a Japanese style bath to soak your aching bones.
