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Where bike storage isn’t an afterthought but a design-defining feature.

Forget the front door — this beautiful rammed earth home greets you with a friendly courtyard welcome.

Think Victorian homes are dark and outdated? Think again! Bryant Alsop’s addition is all about light, space, and sustainability.

A home that blends into its suburban surroundings while quietly championing passive solar design and low-carbon construction...

A new build that honours its humble but much loved predecessor while embracing modern sustainability and style…

How Kreis Grennan Architecture used smart design to create two spacious homes on a compact site...

Now this home enjoys a modern upgrade, reconnecting the kitchen to the backyard and adding eco-friendly touches...

This renovation isn't just an update—it's a tribute to the original design, reimagined for today.

Soak in the fluid lines and light and airy interiors of this modern coastal home in Sydney's Northern Beaches...

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

Clad in zinc, this simple rear addition creates a light-filled, low-fuss extension for a young family to grow.

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

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

Rising costs and melting ice caps. Why not use your renovation as an opportunity to improve your home's environmental credentials as well.

An extension to a double fronted Californian bungalow reuses salvaged materials from the demolition works in an extensive renovation.

These homes are off the grid. They produce power, collect rainwater and treat their own waste - saving money and the planet at once.

This modern farmhouse combines a manager's residence, stable and self contained two-bedroom apartment in finely detailed modern sheds.

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

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

On an extremely small parcel of land Beach Avenue House is designed more like a finely crafted joinery unit than a typical home.

Rammed Limestone is the perfect material for Wall and Wall House — locally sourced, beautiful texture and natural colour and high thermal mass.

This modern farmhouse in Tonimbuk allows the owner to 'live in the environment' thanks to large glass sliding doors.

Carefully curated views help Neutral Bay House to feel brighter, connect to the garden and defy its tightly confined urban site.

A 1960s Architect-designed home undergoes 21st Century transformation into a gracious new house fit for modern living.

Thanks to an owner with an interest in sustainable building, Mona Vale House incorporates passive and active sustainability features.

Off form concrete draws on the solidity of an original masonry structure whilst introducing a new materiality at this home in Glebe.

This superb Mountain Retreat utilises local stone to minimise impact to the external environment, but maximise the internal environment.

Queens Park House designed to create a series of spaces in the old and new house which are flexible over time.

Thornbury House might appear haphazardly crooked, but the angled facade doubles as a sunshade. This solar passive home is functional and visually appealing.

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.

At first glance it's a typical Victorian-era worker's cottage. Only on closer inspection you realize there's something unusual going on behind that facade...

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!

Snowy Mountains House is designed for living off the grid in style. The home works with nature to resist extreme winds, collect rainwater and shed snow.

Elm and Willow House's walls seem to vanish. The living area is neither indoor, nor outdoor space -- the entire yard becomes a part of the house.

Bridge House takes full advantage of a naturally stunning site, straddling a creek bed and touching the earth lightly environmentally and physically.

The location was right. But it would take a lot of imagination and a leap of faith to transform this dilapidated shed into a home...

Tucked away in a subdivided backyard in Melbourne's Inner North, Nest Architects created a delightfully compact two-bedroom home with a beautiful sunny garden.

The 8.2-Star Energy Rated Leura Lane House is an impressive 2-bedroom prototype for energy efficient housing perfect for rural sites.

Despite only adding six square meters to this home, Welsh and Major's reconfiguration and tiny pavilion have made a dramatic difference.

A project home from the 1970s with poor solar orientation is reconfigured and realigned. Now it catches the sun for energy efficiency.

A sustainable, flexible and contemporary living space grows out of an existing home. It's reverent and cheeky, radical and conservative.

Aireys Inlet House -- like all good second homes -- creates connection to nature in contrast to the clients' busy city lives.

Cranky Corner doesn't sound like the ideal retirement home, but this farmhouse in the Hunter Valley is a comfortable and sustainable place to retire.

Fairfield Hacienda offers an alternative to the often wasted front yard. MRTN Architects have created a sunny, private courtyard at the front of the house.

Dramatic topography, bush setting and diverse climatic conditions were the driving forces in this environmentally friendly design.

Ilma Grove is an extension to a heritage home in Northcote, Victoria. The extension provides more space and guarantees a sustainable lifestyle.

In an effort to find more space for a growing and ageing family, Andrew Maynard Architects created a home that has shared space and more private zones.

You can't see the sea from this modern beach house. Undeterred by the lack of view, it faces a sheltered internal courtyard instead.

A prefab home designed around passive solar design principles is warm, comfortable, energy efficient and looks prefab-ulous.

A tiny barnacle-like extension creates a sense of camping or sleeping in the berth of a yacht, but with framed views of the landscape beyond.

Somers Courtyard House is a low maintenance home to accommodate an expanding family with regular guests. The best part? It's completely off-grid!

Sean Godsell Architects explore the traditional verandah to create a stunning beach home sheltered from the extremes of coastal life.

House C3 sits comfortably in its neighbourhood of 19th century workers' cottages neither shouting its modernity nor mimicking the neighbours.

Pekapeka Holiday House explores how to build a holiday house of with strong architectural character at an affordable price.

An extension made from delicate steel and expansive glass feels like a precious jewel has been hung on the original heritage home.

Parents' retreat, teen hideaway, granny flat or rental earner — the function of this self contained extension can change over time.

Befitting a regionally based sculptor, Sawmill House is a hand crafted upgrade from his existing rather rustic bohemian abode.

A new house set in a compact urban site, Woollahra House has a relaxed yet rich garden landscape of indoor and outdoor rooms.

A Miesian inspired glass pavilion in a rural landscape setting not dissimilar to that portrayed in a Claude Monet painting…