Urban

Quite the package, Ha Ha Haus in Alphington is attracting plenty of media admirers. But like the house itself, the inside story of its creation brims with delightful surprises. The result is a feast for the senses and a shape-shifting paean to nature.

When you renovate in a community through which a procession of kids heads to school every morning on a walking bus, it somehow makes sense that your plan is to be as open to that community as possible.

Defined as much by what was untouched as by what was built, this Melbourne courtyard house embraces its trees and streetscapes to place itself firmly in its community.

An architect has diligently and devotedly reinvigorated a 1950s bayside Melbourne home by hand for his family.

A Perth home enhances the experience of changing seasons while providing shelter from the elements.

In a dip between undulating Northcote Hill and Ivanhoe, with bush and Birrarung (the Yarra) at the end of the street, architect Oscar Sainsbury’s elevated home achieves a languid, bush-meets-beach house vibe a stone’s throw from Melbourne’s CBD.

Transforming this tiny house with a heritage listing was not an easy feat, but this project proves that minimalism and heritage can mix.

Eschewing the urgency of most renovations, time allowed this decade-long project to reveal a finished product of fully evolved ideas and utter loveliness.

The glorious views might be across Melbourne but, as a love letter to the 1950s, this house brings some unmistakable Hollywood Hills to the suburbs.

The alchemy of inventing space where so little exists ensures this 150-year-old house lives on as a beautiful and accommodating home.

A WOWOWA alteration has simplified a disjointed Moonee Ponds duplex renovated multiple times before. Reducing height and floorplan helped level out house and garden, re-establish flow and open up living spaces to light and the outdoors.

Architect Anthony Gill has created a modest, economical and sustainable home that reflects and supports his family’s priorities, lifestyle and values.