Allegato anchors a new house in Toorak, Australia, as McMahon and Nerlich translate a personal journey into a place of stillness and light. The project threads Māori notions of Wairua with Design; Building on Country principles, tying the home to land, memory, and a carefully tended garden. An L-shaped plan, sculpted roof forms, and material continuity between indoors and outdoors frame everyday life in a way that feels measured and quietly rich.
House in the Vines stands on a gentle ridge in Renmark, Australia, looking out across orderly rows of vines and the Riverland horizon. James Allen Architect extends the century-old house for a young family, replacing a dated rear wing with new rooms that keep the original stone walls and rural trees at the center of daily life.
Point Lonsdale House sits in Queenscliff, Australia, as a grounded coastal house by Field Office Architecture for a semi-retired couple planning their forever home. The four-bedroom retreat leans into a quiet modernism that honors its proximity to the historic Ballara estate while opening to sun, garden, and sea air. Long-term function, gentle materiality, and a careful response to orientation shape a place tuned to daily life and changing seasons.
Scamander Passivhaus A stands on the eastern Tasmanian coast as a rigorously sustainable house in Scamander, Australia, by Spectura Studio. The single-level home pairs Passivhaus performance with a relaxed coastal setting, creating a calm domestic rhythm tuned to local light and weather. Inside and out, the project frames a lifestyle where comfort, environmental responsibility, and easy coastal living move together rather than compete.
Bangalow Road House stands on a narrow 360m² corner block in Byron Bay, Australia, shaped by Son Studio as a compact, efficient family house. The project responds to tight height and boundary controls with stacked timber volumes and a central courtyard that mediate between a busy street and calm interior life. Within this modest footprint, the house treats light, screening, and climate as core architectural tools rather than add-ons.
Plantasia unfolds as a cinematic holiday house in Australia, conceived by YSG Studio for a young family seeking escape from city routine. The fictional retreat turns a cavernous 1990s mock-Colonial shell into a lush interior journey, where cork floors, wallpapers and surreal colour drench every corner. Each room carries its own mood, inviting children and adults to wander, linger and discover small scenes threaded through the home.
Kilmory House sets a dramatic scene inside a 1913 Arts and Crafts estate in Sydney, Australia, where designer Jillian Dinkel crafts an apartment devoted solely to entertaining. Reworking former bedrooms into a pilates studio, playroom, and art studio, she leans into English tradition with a modern gothic edge, creating a secondary home that treats staying in as an evening out.
Banool House opens to the sea from a modest clifftop plot in Fairhaven on Victoria’s Surf Coast, Australia. Lachlan Shepherd Architects transform a dilapidated two-bedroom structure into a robust weekender that leans into modernist beach shack ease, with timber-lined rooms framing long ocean horizons. The house stays low-key yet precise, tuned to relaxed days, changing weather and easy maintenance for extended family visits.
