Urban

Inspired by FMD’s nearby Bustle House, a newish couple with a blended adult family turned to its creators to gracefully transform a dark Victorian share house into a flexible, light-filled home celebrating ornate Victorian detailing and contemporary connection to inner-city life, nature and self.

Built for ageing in place and for a family to gather, this innovative Hobart house soaks up buckets of warm northern light and aptly worships the distant kunanyi.

Brisbane’s Twin Houses by John Ellway are two separate yet identical houses that go to show how building more with less is a fruitful strategy in our cities.

Brick by brick (literally) the owners of this hands-on home carefully uncovered the good bones and century-old flourishes hidden within.

Two very different architects, a trusted builder, a tight budget and an unusual heritage-listed building in Carlton North have combined to create a compact family home.

A family home on the edge of a reserve in Tasmania is a masterful mix of fixed and moving parts that embrace the ebb and flow of daily life.

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.