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How a Sensitive Renovation Saved These 1970s Apartments from Landfill
Park Street is a former 1970s motel in Brunswick with 17 apartments that have been lightly renovated.
How This Off-Grid Modern Farmhouse Has a Deep Relationship With the Landscape
The design of this modern farmhouse was driven by its site, landscape and a deep understanding of sustainability.
How This Contemporary Extension on a Victorian Home Engages with the Native Garden
Located on a small block in Northcote, this sustainable contemporary extension interacts with the elements and allows the owners to live in their garden.
This Rural Off-Grid Home Embraces Biophilic Design Principles to Connect with Nature
Sitting on a rural property in Wooragee, a small town in Victoria, is a compact off-grid home designed to connect the family with their natural environment.
How These Townhouse-Style Apartments Integrate Biophilic Design Principles
388 Barkly Street is an apartment development that looked to create apartments that would encourage family living.
How An Unconventional Triangular Site Becomes a Sustainable, Playful Family Home
There is a reason most residential blocks are rectangular, so imagine coming across a triangular site that is wedged between a train line and a laneway.
How This Sustainable and Contemporary Extension Was Designed for Pizza Nights
When your architect centres the design of your home renovation around pizza, nothing can go wrong.
How a Simple Courtyard Brought Light and Garden Into This Small Home Extension
Claire and her family started their journey of extending a Victorian terrace shortly before moving to Denmark; however, time spent in a small apartment showed that they didn't need that much space.
How You Can Design Your Home to be More Sustainable
How do you achieve a sustainable home? Is it the orientation, materials, and all the technology, such as solar panels, or is it simply doing less?
How These Apartments Become Highly Sustainable Through Simplicity
Nightingale Anstey is the latest apartment development in a low-carbon, high-quality residential precinct built around Anstey Station in Brunswick.
How An Eco-Friendly House Extension Provides This Family With a Calming Sanctuary
Sometimes a small and simple intervention is all that is needed to allow a family to live more comfortably and sustainably.
Biophilic Design - 7 Principles to Better Connect Your Home with Nature
What if you can experience the same emotions and benefits of being in a forest, but at home?
How This Eco-Friendly Home Uses Biophilic Design Principles to Connect With Nature
The clients wanted their home to better connect with the natural environment, so biophilic design principles were incorporated.
This Off-Grid Limestone and Timber House Is One of Australia’s Most Sustainable Homes
Tucked away in Melbourne's eastern suburb of Toorak sits a sculptural limestone surrounded by lush gardens that can generate, capture and provide everything it needs on-site.
An Architect’s Own Home Was Designed and Built to Passive House Principles
Melbourne architect, Daniel Wolkenberg aimed to design his own home the Passive House principles, which are rigorous standards to achieve year-round comfort.
This Architect Pushed for Maximum Sustainability on His Own Home
Nick Harding wanted to use his own home as a prototype to see what maximum sustainability could look like for row houses and if it was possible to make his home energy neutral.
A Designer's Own Tiny Off-Grid Retreat That Used Shipping Containers With a Hydraulic Deck
Would you live in a shipping container home? There’s no denying it, they are not like a traditional home, but the result can be extraordinary.
An Architect's Own Environmentally-Friendly Timber Home
Ben Callery, a Melbourne-based architect, designed his own sustainable family home around a simple idea, have it more in touch in nature.
How An Architect’s Own Townhouse Prioritises Sustainable Living
Architect Chris Gilbert of Archier wanted to take their townhouse development to another level, ensuring their own home performs as efficiently as possible.
A Sustainable Addition That Is a ‘Shadow’ of the Original Cottage Home
Shadow Cottage retains the charm of an existing heritage home while creating something modern and liveable through a sustainable renovation .