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Timber screens enable connection with privacy, photographed for issue 107: Creature Comforts by Marnie Hawson.

Creature Comforts – Oculus House

A high-performing home packs a lot of program into a single-storey house for five, including flexible spaces for privacy and connection.

Of the focus on the garden Other Architects reflect: “the ordinary world is much more interesting than architecture, and good architecture assimilates more quickly into that world. Image appeared in issue 106: Yard Work, photographed by Clinton Weaver and Hamish McIntosh.

Yard Work – Garden First, House Second

Usually, the design process for architects goes house first, garden second. But delightful things occur when that script is flipped.

Compact Fremantle house with retro materials and Zincalume cladding, photographed for issue 106: Snuck In by Jack Lovel.

Snuck In – Creative Fremantle Subdivision

Creative subdivisions are famous in Fremantle and this lovely little house squeezed into a block that was once a backyard is a perfect celebration of making use of space.

White pebbles forming fire break around house in bushland, photographed for issue 106: Flame Trees by Justin Alexander.

Flame Trees – Amongst the Eucalypts

The architectural demands of responding to bushfire attack levels often result in a path of least resistance. But leaning into the problem can produce startling results.

And Eat it Too

Long a sentinel for surfers, this elegant house now also keeps watch over a rigorous test case of carbon neutral building.

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