Articles

Inspirational articles from the pages of green magazine.

Double Darlings

Issue 111

Filled with exceptional moments across two street frontages, the fine-grained nature of the inner city is mirrored in this Darlinghurst home. This is no ordinary building.

With Time

Issue 111

A long time in the thinking and making, this family home extends into a space that honours the existing trees and prioritises small, value-driven design decisions over expansive ones.

2 Good

Issue 111

Don’t be fooled by the laconic name – 2 Rooms is a beguiling heritage update by a builder and architect who understand the power of soulful interventions to transform, uplift and complete.

Memory Box

Issue 111

On Victoria’s Surf Coast, an architect and builder starting their family eschew the usual ‘think big’ approach for gradual interventions that revive a tiny, ‘trashed’ rental, preserving its simplicity and memories.

Sunnyside Up

Issue 108

Prompted by a child’s interstate move – and a field of native orchids – this home blossoms in the kind of bush and beach setting that Tasmania does best.

In Abundance

Issue 110

Far beyond impressive energy rating, this owner-built home integrates feng shui, geometry and habitat to create uplifting spaces where life can flow.

Even Flow

Issue 110

Sometimes the mark of a renovation is less about the house and more about giving its residents a place in the outdoors.

Corridor

Issue 109

What does a building owe to the landscape it stands on? Creating a thoroughfare for bandicoots wanting a swim is one way to find out.

Warehouse Wild

Issue 102

Soaked in Melbourne’s storied share house and artistic history, this warehouse and its garden is as social and vibrant as its famous inhabitant.

Pooled Resources

Issue 111

When a municipal pool becomes superfluous to a town’s needs, put an orchard in it.

Flotsam Jetsam

Issue 103

The experience of swimming in a stunning new ocean pool begins and ends in these equally beautiful changerooms.

Relief

Issue 100

How can technology turn material waste into solutions for the planet’s biggest challenges?

Basalt and Magenta

Issue 111

Magenta Outhouse is an 11-square-metre outdoor bathing pavilion, sitting among a cluster of basalt boulders on the Bulga Plateau,
on Biripi Country.

Sea Change

Black Dolphin Motel in Merimbula, originally commissioned by visionary David Yencken and designed by architect Robin Boyd in the 1960s.

Flotsam Jetsam

Issue 103

The experience of swimming in a stunning new ocean pool begins and ends in these equally beautiful changerooms.

Tall Order

Issue 76

In a notable first for this publication, we present a house designed for giraffes.

Community Spirit

Issue 75

The magnificence of NSW’s Sapphire Coast is comparable only to the fortitude of its people.

Mountains, Moors and Rainforests

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.

Interest Peaked

Issue 69

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.