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How This Minimalist Interior Creates a Calm and Warm Home
The original 1920s home had a real sense of grandeur; however, the interiors were disconnected, and a series of 1980s and 90s additions blocked the light.
How This Coastal Home Renovation Reduced Its Construction Waste
Solomon Troup Architects transforms a 1980s home, prioritising sustainability through the minimising of construction waste.
How Landscape and Simplicity Influenced the Design of This Small Off-Grid Home
Sue and Jim approached Ben Callery Architects to design a weekender on an exposed rural site in High Camp.
How an Architect Renovated and Modernised Their Own Mid-Century Home
Wilko Architecture has sympathetically renovated his own mid-century modern home which suffered from a bad 70s makeover.
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 Warm, Textured, and Inviting Extension Provides a Backdrop for Family Life
Pat and Taryn wanted a natural and light-filled extension to their cold and dark Victorian weatherboard home in Brunswick.
How This Japanese Minimalist Home Took a Wabi-Sabi Approach
Katsutoshi Sasaki realised one of his dreams as an architect designing his own home for his family.
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 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 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 This Biophilic Home Connects with the Treetops Seamlessly
We as humans have an almost instinctual desire for a connection to nature, but sometimes we focus too much on our homes to shelter us from the environment that we forget to connect.
How This Pre-fab Tiny Home Shows That Less Can Be More
There is a misconception when it comes to housing, that bigger is better, where too often, floor area is favoured over quality.
How This Architect Designed Their Own Cabin to Connect With Nature
Overlooking the D'Entrecasteaux Channel on Bruny Island sits a family holiday home designed to respect the natural environment in which it sits.
How This Australian Cottage Extension Was Inspired by Japanese Architecture
Inbetween Architecture looked to add a small chapter to a 100-year cottage in the leafy Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe.
How These Nightingale Apartments Build Less to Give More
In 2014, Breathe looked around Melbourne and saw a broken housing system and sought to build a new model that focused on people, not profits.
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.
How These Sustainable Apartments Have Been Designed for People, Not Investors
20 apartments have been designed for people, not investors, following the principles of providing apartments that are socially, financially and environmentally sustainable.
How A Desire for Slow Living Inspired This Family Beach House Design
The owners were seeking a change in lifestyle for their family, to move away from the city and have a greater connection to nature.