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Inspirational articles from the pages of green magazine.
Inspirational articles from the pages of green magazine.
The experience of swimming in a stunning new ocean pool begins and ends in these equally beautiful changerooms.
How can technology turn material waste into solutions for the planet’s biggest challenges?
With constraints at every turn but with a surprisingly collegiate approach, a small cabin made of bits and bobs takes shape.
Selected from our Upfront section, where we share a curated spread of projects, products and initiatives that we love.
Designed as an inner and an outer world, this house by Incidental Architecture provides both prospect and refuge while capturing the personalities of its clients.
A playful collaboration between MRTN Architects, SBLA Studio and a client with strong views and unconventional needs has created a restorative take on the contemporary farmhouse.
With architect and landscape architect, a design-savvy client with a passion for bush regeneration has created something extraordinary along a tributary of Melbourne’s Birrarung.
Crafted for creating memories across generations, a timeless coastal retreat embraces ocean vistas, surrounding bushland and family connection.
“Make us float” said the owners of a bald hill in a spectacular pocket of Victoria’s Mornington. Site constraints notwithstanding, their wish was Foomann Architects’ command.
A cool and contemporary spin on the Tasmanian shack tradition enhances the experience of being in the bush.
Buffeted by all that Tassie weather might throw at a house and its inhabitants, this wood-lined cocoon is respite personified.
Canny clients team up with local architects to create a simple, economical and beautifully realised regional home.
A Bannockburn groundskeeper’s cottage – of sorts – on the regenerating farm of two design educators offers refuge, connection and clear views.
Nightingale Marrickville is an innovative build-to-rent project providing affordable housing with outstanding design and sustainability credentials.
Nightingale Evergreen is a major chapter in the story of developing well-designed and affordable housing that run counter to urban sprawl and ticky-tacky builds.
In a notable first for this publication, we present a house designed for giraffes.
Soaked in Melbourne’s storied share house and artistic history, this warehouse and its garden is as social and vibrant as its famous inhabitant.
Embedded in village life at ground level and enveloped in a canopy of green upstairs, this Perth home is in-fill housing built for the senses.
A garden in inner-suburban Melbourne shows the beauty of the Australian landscape and the fruits of a free-flowing creative process.
The experience of swimming in a stunning new ocean pool begins and ends in these equally beautiful changerooms.
What stands out about recent prefabricated buildings is their sheer flexibility. While some are still simple, increasingly the forms – and materials – of prefab are becoming more complex. This collection includes multi-storey and even multi-residential examples across Australia and New Zealand.
How can technology turn material waste into solutions for the planet’s biggest challenges?
The magnificence of NSW’s Sapphire Coast is comparable only to the fortitude of its people.
The terrain, flora and weather are important factors that make an epic trek, but it is also the guides who add so much to the journey on Tasmania’s iconic Overland Track.
The Southern Grampians offer a dynamic landscape for hiking and the iconic Royal Mail Hotel at the foot of the range is a welcoming gourmet destination.
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