Tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the city, this expansive family home is at one with nature.

A series of cohesive and varied volumes sees this long, narrow home transition from weatherboard to concrete to brick.

This Sydney terrace, now with fewer rooms but more usable space, is driven by creative ideas that will inspire sustainable architecture and functional living.

This small footprint extension liberates its landscape with some out of the box thinking.

Mick and Jules Moloney are partners in life and work who practise what they preach from their joyfully sustainable home office in Ballarat.

Architects Amy Hallett and Darren Kaye brought years of experience to bear on their compact but perfectly formed Albert Park home, which is rich in tactile detailing and sturdy as a hand-built ship.

Nest Architects has turned an impossibly cold, constraining “mongrel” of a cottage in Fitzroy North into a warm little home, rich in sunlight and full of sweet, adaptable spaces for a young family to interact with each other and their neighbourhood.

The beauty of buildings is that they shift and change, and over time new stories add to the fabric, layer by layer, iteration by iteration, gesture by gesture.

A family home fosters spatial and visual connections throughout, through a progressive program of internal and external rooms with
carefully conceived views.

A dark cottage is altered to create the illusion of infinite space and sunshine utilising generous openings and the immediacy of the landscape.