Regional

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

As a successful test case for the owners’ architectural ideas and research, this mountain home provides a cocoon that goes way beyond aesthetics.

No doubt there are easier ways to make a house on an island off an island off an island. But it certainly wouldn’t be this one.

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.

Removing trip hazards was just the tip of the iceberg when considering the design for this this deeply modest age-in-place home in a flame zone.

Passive House principles and BAL-FZ requirements work in tandem in this Blue Mountains house by Anderson Architecture, creating a small, sustainable, bushfire-resilient home.

Partners in life and architecture, the pair behind Bligh Graham Architects have designed their own Queensland family home as a prototype for flexible, adaptable living.

A modular dwelling designed to expand, change and move along with its owners serves as a creative, modest and logical solution to the difficulties of combining lifestyle with home ownership.