Award-winning architect Drew Heath’s take on the shipping container as a house has plenty of design and a lot of nerve.
The clients of Tasmanian architect Misho Vasiljevich – a couple in their 70s – had a clear view of how they wanted to live now and into the future.
The clean, pared-back lines of this new family home belie the knotty problem- solving that went into its design.
Moving from the inner city of Brisbane to a rural valley, an architect couple has taken the vernacular and refined it to work with the landscape not against it.
From the wrong side of the tracks, a modest 1920s cottage in NZ is a now a carefully curated mix of old and new.
When it comes to persuading clients to go for a smaller footprint, a West Australian design couple has let their own home do the talking.
This new beach shack on a bay south of Hobart combines the spirit of the past with the clean lines and airy atmosphere of the present.
Small but perfectly formed - this home in southern Tasmania was customised to the clients’ needs, and their budget.
A compact yet stylish coastal “bach” on NZ’s Coromandel Peninsula was the ultimate practical assignment for a group of architecture students from Auckland’s Unitec.
In a forest outside Bendigo in central Victoria, where temperatures swing from freezing winters to scorching summers, a local architect has used lessons learned during a stint in Brisbane to conceive and build a compact, affordable “camp” for his young family.
When architect Shawn Godwin visited his client’s block of land on the Sunshine Coast, he was struck by its natural beauty. He wanted to preserve it and design a house minimising any impact.
For a climber and an artist, this remote harsh area of New Zealand’s South Island offered a rare opportunity. Martin Hill had been based for many years in Auckland but the attraction of the mountains and lakes of the Wanaka region in the Southern Alps provided an environment for him to delve more deeply into his art and photography.
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