Carcassonne reshapes a heritage-listed house in Melbourne’s leafy south-east into a family home by FMD Architects. The project relocates daily life to a stepped, north-facing addition and reopens the original fabric to light and garden views. Across the lot, rooms now connect with both a public front garden and a private rear yard and pool, drawing a clear line between arrival, shared living, and quiet retreat.
Vespa anchors a young family’s house on the Gold Coast, Australia, by Habitat Studio Architects. The subtropical retreat pairs a monolithic western facade with a hovering roof, deep overhangs, and lush planting that draw breezes and temper glare. Inside and out, rooms pivot around a generous courtyard, balancing outward living with refuge, while concrete, timber, and black detailing keep the palette grounded in durability and calm.
Howqua River Lodge sits in Howqua Hills, Australia, a house by Robert Mills Architects that pairs off-grid resilience with high-performance comfort. The project reads the alpine climate closely and uses it, drawing light, warmth, and air across generous rooms tuned to the valley. Built in 2024, it leans on durable Australian materials and a gentle, restorative mood.
Villa XXIII settles into the hillside of Eaglemont, Victoria, Australia with a quiet confidence. Designed by FGR Architects, the house moves low and long across two steep allotments and takes its cues from the Mount Eagle estate’s landscape and legacy. Completed in 2024, it brings a restrained palette and a clear plan to a storied terrain where light and vegetation shape daily life.
Parkside is a compact two-storey house in Fitzroy North, Australia, by Austin Maynard Architects. Built at the rear of the owners’ former terrace block, the home fronts a leafy park and favors downsizing with dignity. The project distills daily life into a light-filled plan with a courtyard at its heart and long views to the trees. It’s designed for aging-in-place without giving up sociability or a sense of address.
Onda sits in Attadale, Australia, a riverside suburb of Perth, and recasts a worn bungalow as a contemporary house by State of Kin. The studio keeps the original shell yet reshapes circulation with sweeping curves and a tactile palette tuned to family life. Completed in 2024, the project privileges outlook and privacy in equal measure.
This apartment in Australia is an exercise in distillation — of space, memory, and material. Designed by Studio Zawa, the renovation transforms a dated 1960s floor plan into a tactile and deeply personal home that balances simplicity with richness. The original plan splayed the bedrooms to maximise water views, while the design embraces and extends this gesture, drawing the harbour view deep into the plan through careful orchestration of materials that animate light and reflection.
Set in Brisbane, Australia, Toohey Forest House is a retreat designed by Bones Studio in 2024. The Montreal and Toronto-based studio embraces elements of Brutalism and tropical modernism, celebrating the existing house while incorporating a new pavilion that connects lightly through a glazed gallery.
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