Fusing elements of European neo-classical architecture with modern interiors designed to showcase a stunning collection of Aboriginal artwork, this palatial home satisfies every necessity and desire.

Looking to accommodate a growing family, architect Ilana Kister wanted urban rather than suburban. Stephen Crafti thinks her made-over inner-suburban warehouse in Melbourne fits the bill perfectly.

This frugal renovation and expansion of a beach shack yields a warm extended family retreat teeming with beautiful local timbers.

The inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown continues to resist gentrification, especially down near the railway line where architect, Jon Jacka has built a house for himself and his family. Paul McGillick discovers a house which reflects its mercurial context.

The alteration of a home in Selangor, Malaysia by Design Collective Architects (featured in Habitus 19), transforms a generic urban villa into a unique and intelligently designed dwelling.

The relationship of Glenn Murcutt’s houses to the landscape is not so much holding hands as the lightest of touches. But Paul McGillick suggests this holiday house in the Blue Mountains positively embraces its context.

For Bangkok-based writer Nikki Busuttil, a short trip to Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand to meet Torlarp Larpjaroensook became an immersion in art.

Designed by Dean Herald of Rolling Stone Landscapes, this garden overlooking Sydney Harbour creates a beautiful outdoor living and entertaining area replete with a comprehensive outdoor kitchen and entertainment system.

Nestled amongst the treetops in Sydney’s Upper North Shore, Kings Apartments, Roseville feature 23 luxury apartments that show the architect’s skill at integrating the building with its environment. Belinda Aucott reports.

Pepo Botanic Design have created a garden in Paddington, designed to integrate outdoor and indoor living spaces.

Expansive, modern and precise, this inner-city apartment marries an unequivocally urban context with unexpected tranquility.

Nestled within Sydney’s Avalon Angophora reserve, this warm and serene home combines superb timbers, masterful carpentry and a magnificent location.

Out of the ashes of Victoria’s horrific Black Saturday bushfires in 2009 new homes have been built as part of an architect-based scheme. Mark Scruby visits one such house based on a model designed by Jackson Clements Burrows with interiors by Doherty Lynch.

A development in Melbourne’s suburb of Donvale promises the tranquility of a natural setting, the convenience of inner city living and the latest in environmentally friendly architecture and design.

Indian architects, Studio Mumbai, are attracting international attention for the integrity and imagination of their projects. Here, Kerstin Rose is taken through a recent project and introduced to how the practice thinks.

Poised on the edge of Bangalore’s buzzing city centre, a scientist’s suburban sanctuary emerges as a succession of inside and outside spaces, accentuated by lively punctuations of landscape. Adele Chong reports.

A Perth renovation celebrates heritage qualities while enhancing them with contemporary flourishes. Carly Barrett reports.

A Singapore home designed for flexibility demonstrates sensitivity to its environment and a beautiful pairing of coarse and refined textures.

Rolling Stone Landscapes have created a lush and relaxing outdoor area to accompany a modern home.

Referencing the textures of history and circumstance, a beautifully renovated family home ensures comfort and flexibility for current and future generations.

Beautiful, welcoming and environmentally friendly, this Malaysian home demonstrates how architectural mastery can satisfy seemingly disparate requirements without compromise.

A polished and generous family home graces a quintessential Queensland landscape.

Starting with a large plot of land in Chiangmai, Thailand and filling only part of it with a home has created a meditative private space amidst a communal, recreational one.

The tried and tested warehouse-to-apartment conversion finds its Queensland incarnation.

A revitalised indoor courtyard inspires the rebirth of a contemporary home in Manila. Adele Chong reports.

Located in a tranquil setting with natural bush land providing the backdrop, Dean Herald of Rolling Stone Landscapes has created a stunning oasis in a rural landscape.

Clean volumes, abundant light and inviting textures create a warm, serene dwelling.

A lacklustre 1960s brick house in Sydney’s North Bondi is transformed into an unconventionally modern home.

A Brisbane fit out characterised by one family, two architects, a three-bedroom unit and a lot of black, white and reflective surfaces.

A clean, minimalist apartment in Singapore by MOMO + Partners celebrates open volumes, considered materiality and pared back colours.

A simple and gracious family home in the Adelaide Hills suburb of Woodside demonstrates how a modest space can be imbued with warmth.

10 years of ideas, 2 years of design and construction, and painstaking attention to detail combine to create a uniquely beautiful and fascinating home.

A modern addition to an Edwardian home in Melbourne updates and expands the dwelling with a luminous, ample space that can accommodate the varied uses of a busy young family.

In Habitus 18 Paul McGillick explores a Newtown house by panovscott architects. Their statement regarding the project demonstrates a keen sensitivity both to the specific site and to the broader context of the home, and we believe it is a valuable and stimulating document in its own right.

A new timber bach by architect Michael O’Sullivan pays homage to the land and its history. In Habitus 18 Andrea Stevens visits the Karekare site and finds a warmly crafted weekend retreat.

Architect Peter Stutchbury’s Avalon home of 26 years hints at many of the stylistic signatures that have defined his career since, deftly applying a modern touch to the Australian coastal environment.

Working with the template of a single-fronted Victorian house, DX Architects have maintained a heritage façade while expanding and reconfigured the space into a clean, modern home punctuated by design flourishes.

George & Allen, a projected development in Sydney’s Warerloo, promises a refreshing space and luminosity to inner-city apartments.

Combining a background in Corporate Project management and years of experience in renovations, Linda Delaney delivers elegant and functional interior solutions that make efficient use of time and money.

Balancing a brand new build, the client’s sentimental attachment to the previous structure and specific spatial and circulatory desires, Nexus Designs have created an inviting beach house on the Bellarine Peninsula that cleverly incorporates a variety of design and sustainability features.

Completed in 1972, the Gissing House is an excellently preserved example of Harry Seidler’s style at the fullness of his maturity and confidence.

An empty plot facing Manly Lagoon, a flexible brief and the Asian sensitivities of the client provide the raw materials for Vaughan Architects to create a stunning pair of serene, modern homes.

Light, volume and flexible boundaries in this Sydney home allow internal spaces to connect seamlessly with their outdoor surrounds.

A fit out of a compact Melbourne apartment demonstrates how an open layout and efficient design can expand and brighten a home.

Reviewed in Habitus 19, this luxurious Singapore residential project updates conventional notions of conservation development while inviting the luscious rainforest setting into living spaces.

A sensitivity for where best to concentrate clients’ resources and strong relationships with craftsmen and contractors allowed CplusC architects to create a modern, elegant home rich with character and well-suited to its inhabitants.

Habitus Editor Paul McGillick revisits the iconic architecture of the Northern Sydney suburb of Castlecrag.

David Boyle Architects execute an admirable transformation of a poor quality, unattractive brick bungalow into a modern and inviting family home.

Sunshine, ventilation and natural textures combine to create a home that is consistent with the Queensland lifestyle while offering the flexibility and innovation of modern design.

Bird de la Coeur’s modern, comfortable and well-executed development in South Yarra is elevated by 1950′s elegance and a holistic vision of residents’ lifestyles.

Referencing the timber shacks of past-century Australian coastlines, this comfortable family home updates the iconic Australian beach dwelling with contemporary urban finesse.

A south Melbourne development illustrates how discerning attention to detail can create understated, refined residences.

Textured fabrics, native timbers and warm lighting transform a Brighton home from intimidating to inviting.

A home designed to recreate the spirit of camp life evokes the family hearth while demonstrating that a modest budget and square footage can yield a refined, ample space. By Lorenzo Logi.

A boldly modern property set in a stunning natural context abounds with refinement and luxury while realising a range of sustainability principles

A Singapore home conceptualised as a three-dimensional 9-grid square is an exercise in balance, efficiency and precision.

An elegant, humble and intelligent project, this timber home showcases environmental stewardship, sensitivity to local culture and a keen desire to inhabit its context without dominating it.

Situated in the Parahyangan Rumah Villa estate in Bandung, Indonesia, this compact, extroverted home demonstrates how good design can integrate unique aesthetics with practical functionalism.

Kevin Borland’s vibrantly innovative series of buildings for the Preshil school have lost none of their charm and continue to complement the educational philosophies they are host to.

Hear from Architect Rachel Neeson as she takes By Design’s Janne Ryan on a tour of the award-winning Castlecrag project.

The Buchan group continues its collaboration with the Leukaemia Foundation Queensland with a patient accommodation village in Brisbane.

A renovation of an inner city Sydney terrace fuses heritage details with creative use of internal and external space to construct a friendly family home.

A weekend home overlooking lake Taal combines a panoramic natural context with a contemporary interpretation of traditional Philippino architecture.

A thoughtful, finely executed fusion of styles and forms yields an elegantly understated home rich in hidden details.

A renovation by Michael Bechara Design simultaneously updates this Sydney home while underscoring it’s deco charm.

A collaboration between Deka and Scott Street Apartments yields an open, luminous space with with an eclectically modern feel.

History, context and adaptation reveal a simple, modern apartment in Singapore’s historic Joo Chiat. Peter Sim of FARM tells Ben Morgan the story of The Brick Loft.

Neometro and KPDO’s latest collaboration has created a luminous, contemporary house replete with amenities and design ingenuity.

A thoughtfully modest family home on the Brisbane River demonstrates how small houses can capitalise on the qualities of their site while fitting in with their surroundings.

Punctuating eastern Tasmania’s pristine coastline, the Marion Bay House revels in it’s panoramic setting while showcasing natural materials and architectural expertise.

When Bruce Rickard died in September 2010, Australia lost one its finest architects. Accompanied by Bruce, Paul McGillick visited his last completed house and found he was innovating right to the end.

Iconic interiors brand Missonihome teams up with Philippines developer Century Properties to create unique and colorful private residences.

Set in the wooded, waterfront Hobart suburb of Sandy Bay, the Boot Leg Reserve House exemplifies simple, cost-effective construction techniques that produce a luminous and elegant family home.

In this month’s Habitus magazine we go inside architect Ilana Kister’s home in Melbourne. Today on Habitusliving.com, we explore another projects from the same architect in Richmond, Victoria. Let’s take a peek inside.

A large collection of mid-Century furniture and art informed the design for this Auckland house by Andrea Bell of Pete Bossley Architects. Andrea Stevens finds more than just earthy 50s tones, in this energy efficient and sustainably built family home.

Architect and artist Marr Grounds lives in a self-sufficient retreat fit for a king on the far south coast of Sydney. Caroline Baum made the journey there to find a place where life, art and the landscape are indistinguishable.

Architect Juliana Chan describes her apartment in Brookvale Walk, Singapore as “a little hidden gem”. And Darlene Smyth agrees that she and her interior designer husband, Tristan Tan, have miraculously turned a sow’s ear into a silk purse.

With a baby on the way two architects were motivated to maximise the space and amenity of an already tight and efficient apartment in Sydney. Jane Burton Taylor tells us how they did it.

In the next issue of Habitus we take a trip to Melbourne to look the architect Ilana Kister’s inner-suburban home. In Habitus #15 (out March 28) Stephen Crafti discusses how she made her warehouse in to an urban space that was practical for a young family.

The Upper House Hotel, a Swire Hotels project designed by Andre Fu, sits at the pinnacle of Hong Kong small luxury hotels.

Allen’s Rivulet House overlooks a wild bush valley and Mount Wellington in Hobart, Tasmania. Designed by Room 11 this thoughtful home was awarded the The Esmond Dorney Award for Residential Architecture in 2011.

Melburnian Apartment by Carr Design is a pared back interior that speaks volumes for restraint.

Nestled in Bukit Timah Singapore, M-House provides the ideal balance between the needs for family bonding as well as for personal space.

Separation Street by Jesse Linardi at dKO Architects is a great example of affordable architecture in Australia.

Kathryn McKusker and Tobias Partners have teamed up to create an urban yoga sanctuary in the eastern Suburbs of Sydney. Belinda Aucott has the story.

Returning from a few decades living abroad, businessman Nigel Timms was looking for a holiday home that would capture his nostalgia for his childhood in New Zealand.

A relatively modern split-level terrace house in Bondi Beach was refurbished and enhanced by MCK Architects in 2010.

Patane House by Bureau Proberts was designed for a close knit, young family in Queensland.

Travel to 1770, a tiny village 120 kms north of Bundaberg, Queensland and you will find artist Marian Drew tucked away in her holiday home, Katrina Blowers has the story

They move in very different circles – he in the corporate world, she in the visual arts. But Brian and Gene Sherman form a powerful partnership weaving together the arts, business and philanthropy.

This clever transformation of an old Singapore home shows modern sensibility and good green thinking.

Popov Bass Architects’ integrated approach to design provided Deirdre Huntley and her family with seamlessly harmonised space for their house in Mosman, Sydney. Here, she takes us through some of her favourite pieces.

A house and its contents becomes, over time, a collection of things and ideas that represent a personal journey. For Thai designer, architect and photographer, Varakan Tipprapa, this curation was a very conscious response to his own questions about the purpose of a designer.

When Singapore belatedly began to value its built heritage, the traditional shophouse suddenly became much sought-after with some stunning make-overs. Richard Ho, a specialist in conservation projects, previously carried out a beautiful renovation to a shophouse in Penang. Darlene Smyth looks at an equally elegant one in Singapore.

The career of Singapore-based Nathan Yong has had many incarnations. Best known for founding successful furniture design and manufacture company, Air Division, he is now branching out into new areas. Kirsty de Garis talks to him about sculpture, Singapore and simplicity

Houses are usually built quite quickly in Singapore, but an extended timeframe can be an advantage. Chu Lik Ren visits a home designed by Formwerkz Architects for an artist friend and his family, which allowed many details to develop organically throughout the process.

By re-inventing tropical architecture to fit a modern context, architect Aamer Taher has endowed a resort-like appeal on this four-level bungalow in Singapore. At the same time, says Madhavi Tumkur, he has ensured that it is also a home to three generations of residents.

Architect Pongsakorn Kitkajornpong has created two distinct living areas in this ‘housing compound’ in Thailand. Tonkao Panin explores the way the activities of a family have shaped the spaces in which they live.

The distance between Belgium and Bangkok is more than just physical. For Pieter Compernol, it’s a journey that inspired a new life and a table-obsessed business built on an imaginary personality – Nicky Lobo meets P.Tendercool.

The owners of this house came to architect, Kitchai Jitkhajornwanich, saying: “We’ve bought an old house and need to re-program it to fit our lives.” Tonkao Panin reveals what happened next.

This house by Kanoon Studio is nestled in a quiet residential neighborhood of Bangkok. Known for their distinctive design, Chartchalerm Klieopatinon and Vasuvat Mettapun here offer an alternative solution for an urban home.

The award-winning 26 Cable Road residence in Singapore by ip:li architects brings the best aspects of the ‘kampong’ or village life gently into the present. Janice Seow has this story.

Kanika R’kul led a wave of overseas-trained Thai architects who returned home to address the issue of how to design a contemporary Thai house without losing connection with traditional values. Tonkao Panin reviews her career.

When architect Boonlert Hemvijitraphan created a weekend house for Thai actress Acharapan Paiboonsuvan he transformed two old timber houses into a pavilion in two parts. Tonkao Panin discovers a house that has grown with its surrounding environment.

The beauty of reclaimed and recycled timber is only partly aesthetic – the knowledge of its former function adds a whole other appeal. Jaz Sidhu visited the island of Langkawi in Malaysia and discovered a home designed by Building Bloc (who’s Desa House is featured in Habitus 18) that generates new life for old timber electricity poles.

Even in Asia, the extended family is giving way to the nuclear family. But there are still architects – and clients – wanting to explore the possibility of housing, if only on a temporary basis, the extended family. Typically, these experiments involve the idea of compound housing.

This addition to a house in Damansara Heights outside Kulala Lumpur in Malaysia is by a small, young two-man practice, RT+Q Architects. For Joanne Goh it is a revealing example of how vernacular forms can be reinterpreted for contemporary purposes.

Paul McGillick discovers the intriguing inner-suburban Sydney home of architect Richard Peters.

Chenchow Little is an award-winning practice that has provided architectural and interior architecture services since 1994.

Singapore-based architectural firm Ong&Ong has created a surprising contemporary residence by remodeling the inside of a three-story townhouse. 

Positioned in Melbourne’s Domain precinct, this residence meshes the character filled historic architecture with the crisp detailing of a modern addition.

This week Architect Tonny Wirwan Suruadjaja from TWS and Partners spoke with Habitusliving.com about his Static House in Jakarta Indonesia. 

Surprising and enlightening, MCK has transformed a tiny double fronted cottage in
Queens Park into a clean line and dramatic residence.

A startling mix of Middle Eastern colours against perfect white gives this home its sense of ease and tranquil liveability.

This week an family home by Jackson Clements Burrows takes the unexpected approach of a Trojan Horse.

With an earth-bound and rustic style, this water-side Coogee house is based on the traditional Cape Dutch fishing village houses found on the South African west coast. 

Daniel Marshall Architects creates Korora House, New Zealand

Architect Jon Clements took time out to speak with us this week about why their Henley Street design held such significance, in the sea-changing town of Barwon Heads, Victoria. 

Robin Boyd is one of Australia’s most admired architects. So, says Stephen Crafti, architects Lovell Chen found it quite a challenge converting a 1960s Boyd apartment to suit the needs of a modern extended family.

Andrew Patterson of Patterson’s Architects explains the relationship of Parihoa House to the land on which it is built

Chu Lik Ren meets Malayasian landscape architect, Ng Sek San whose collective works straddle the hard and tactile world of architecture and the soft pliable world of landscape architecture.

Wendy Whiteley talks with Verity Magdalino about her home and garden in Lavender Bay, NSW

House Under Pohutukawa Trees is a warm and earthy beach house built for Gary and Sherry Butler in Piha North, New Zealand.
 

Durbach Block Architects designed the award winning House Holman in 2004.

Wallflower Architecture + Design merges passive water-cooling and timeless beauty to create a two-storey ‘water cooled’ house in Singapore 

Janice Seow explores the first completed private residence in Singapore to be rated Green Mark Platinum.

Black/white, solid/open, permanent/ temporary are just some of
the contrasts at play in this house on Great Barrier Island, New Zealand. Andrea Steven’s from Habitus issue 9 has the story.

Nobbs Radford Architects transforms a small existing cottage into a
generous, refined home by seamlessly integrating the old with the new.
 

Edha Architects’ Leo House sees the clever integration of FengShui ideals with modern architecture. 
 
 

Jonathan Lake looks at a project by Iredale Pedersen Hook that responds to the unique landscape and climate of Perth.

 An ordinary house in the Adelaide Foothills has been given an extraordinary rebirth by Troppo Architects. Rachael Bernstone reports on how to extend affordably and imaginatively.
 

This design in Geelong’s Newtown undergoes a renovation, utilising its
corner position and some clever visual tricks to create a spacious
family home.

Baenziger Coles have helped to create a house with a sense of home, important for a site with many memories.

This 5-year-long warehouse conversion in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley has
been a careful, challenging process, with a rich, respectful result.

Designed by Aamer Architects, this award-winning tropical house in
Singapore offers a bold arrangement of space that takes advantage of a
commanding city view. Janice Seow has this story.

A chance encounter turns into an amazing opportunity to create this ‘armoured’ home with a warm, tactile heart.

As far as complicated sites go, they don’t get much tougher than a
cliff top, but the challenges of site created nothing but opportunities
for this home.

A home dictated by a conservative streetscape, challenging site and an organic, prominent landscape feature.

A bold addition to a heritage-listed home in Melbourne creates an harmonious co-existence of two distinct styles.

Jenna Reed Burns explores the renovation of a Queenslander that respects the architecture of the style.

This home by Lahznimmo architects in Sydney’s Haberfield is a home reborn, and a home built specifically for way of life of its inhabitants.

A statement of simple form that confidently delivers what any home should; exactly what its owners need and want.

Designed by Andrew Simpson Architects, this home twists in all its geometric wonder towards the natural landscape.

This new farmhouse by Patterson Associates stands sentinel on Auckland’s West Coast. Andrea Stevens visits this magical site.

This home in Melbourne’s Kew takes its ‘cue’ from an unlikely place.

An iconic Sydney location, a serendipitous discovery and a whole lot of luck came together to produce this amazing rooftop home.

This home in Anglesea by Seeley Architects melds with its site thanks to materials and scale.

This home in Melbourne’s Prahran was built to house the art of a gallery
director, but for the owners it, in itself, was a work of art worth
savouring.

This light, airy and spacious home is an old government-built flat that has been redesigned by architect and owner Desmond Ong.

This beautiful home in Melbourne’s Middle Park brings a little bit of childhood fantasy to a very grown-up house.

Find out what makes Tribe Studio Architects tick as we explore Hannah Tribe’s approach to design.

Step with us into this home which “disappears” into its surroundings.

Habitusliving.com Editor, Ben Morgan, explores this home of concrete and curves in an expression of folding roof forms and a response to site and climate.

Drew Heath’s Bondi House is featured in Issue 11 of Habitus magazine – out March 15. Here, Jane Burton Taylor revisits another of Heath’s homes built for privacy and seclusion to see what’s changed.

Creating a functional family home in Sydney’s Paddington, MCK Architects
also had the opportunity to re-imagine what ‘heritage’ means in today’s
world.

This home in Gladesville retains a traditional streetscape while
delivering a light, open and inviting rear extension. Jane Burton Taylor
drops by for a visit.

An urban oasis in Sydney’s Newtown plays with space to create an evolving story.

It’s as though this beautiful home by BKK Architects has “washed ashore” and “embedded” itself in the terrain.

Jane Burton-Taylor visits the home of Ashely Dunn and Lee Hillam in Botany.

Inarc Architects create a home that celebrates natural materials, family and environment.

Rachel Bourne and Shane Blue’s own holiday home was the inspiration behind this New South Wales house, Jane Burton-Taylor goes outside inside.

With neighbours on all sides, this award-winning house in Singapore
looks inwards to conceal, open up, and draw in natural light and breeze.

A kaleidoscopic staircase, a tapestry of colour and a tight budget are
at the heart of this house by FMD Architects in North Melbourne.

Featured in Habitus 18, the Green House is a monolithic copper-clad cube in the west of Singapore Island that engages with its lush surroundings and is a frame for both garden and art.

This beach house in Victoria’s Anglesea returns to the roots of the beach shack.

Serenity now: An old house is given new tranquillity, thanks to the careful approach of architect James Jones. Rachael Bernstone goes south.

Lasting impression: a new home for a couple that met and married later in life blends beautifully with its surroundings, despite its tough exterior.

Who would have thought that ‘pinching’ a house in the middle would make
it feel bigger? Colour, light and creative cabinetry reactivate this Sydney
terrace.

A home that engages vertically with the outdoors – a backyard on its roof.

This holiday retreat by Fearon Hay Architects demonstrates the fundamental relationship between architecture and landscape for which New Zealand is renowned.

The architects upstairs: a shared renovation, a lesson in getting on with your neighbours and two beautiful contemporary homes.

A model of sustainability, this home in Sydney’s Mona Vale demonstrates the fusion of design and sustainable thinking.

Luigi Rosselli creates an historically and environmentally respectful home in Sydney’s Little Bay.

Interior Designer, Michael Bechara transforms this Surry Hills terrace (once a corner store) with a sensitive restoration and modernisation. Ben Morgan talks detail with Michael.

Modern Classical: Aamer Taher-designed Dalvey
Estate bungalow is a modern rendition of vernacular architecture but also one
that engages the mind to reflect on its sculptural art form. Madhavi Tumkur visits this home in Singapore. 

This home by Singapore-based architects
Formwerkz facilitates the urban garden and maintains a connection to place.

Nobbs Radford Architects transforms a small existing cottage into a generous, refined home by seamlessly integrating the old with the new. 

Plus Architecture have set
a precedent with their multi-residential development in South Yarra that
focuses on community.

Stephanie Madison explores architect Shawn Godwin’s award-winning Brisbane home.

For architects Owen and Vokes it was a respect for the original 1990s
beach house and the intricacies of the house site which drove the design
of this Sunshine Coast home.

Darren Westell explores this home by Architect Guy Morgan in the rice fields of Bali.

Bark is more than a name for the architects of this Sunshine Coast
house.

A challenging site and heritage listing weren’t enough to deter the
owners of this Melbourne home.

Tobias Partners bring a 1960s Sydney brick home into the 21st Century
while carefully retaining the original design aesthetic.

A private fitness-focused home on Singapore’s Sentosa Island

A home by Malaysian design firm Building Bloc exploring the urban milieu.

Jane Burton Taylor explores a home designed as both a memorial to the
past and a gathering place for the future.

A sustainable approach and an unbelievable outlook create an uplifting
home by Sparks Architects in the Sunshine Coast hinterland.

Architect David Luck explores the relationship of Australian
architecture, landscape and sense of place…

Queensland-based construction company writes a new chapter in pre-fab
housing.

A relationship forged through two previous projects has helped owners
and architects create a home that works with its surroundings, for its
occupants.

A personal connection is at the heart of this renovation of a 1950s weatherboard house on the South Coast of New South Wales.

Explorative Australian architecture becomes accessible in a new residential community

Jane Riley explores this Neeson Murcutt-designed home on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria

Habitus magazine Editor Paul McGillick explores a new approach to development in Parramatta City.

Water-wise holistic landscapes: landscape architecture firm, HarveyJenkin Landscapes.

This home extension in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley is far from
Victorian, but sits softly within the landscape and existing buildings.

This home by Singapore firm D Lab is a product of unique dualities of space and the personalities of its occupants.

Fiona Dunin of FMD architects explains how her Lorne hideaway has ‘grown’ from its surroundings.

Ark Atelier founder, Stephen Cameron, and the renovation of his Queensland dairy farm.

The need for sustainable housing and design has inspired Archology’s Terry Bail and Martin Urakawa to join forces and create the Live Green House showcased in Sydney’s Martin Place  during National Recycling Week (November 9-15).

An Auckland architect’s own home explores domesticity and modernism.

Cultural respect from an Australian towards the Bali residence he lives in.

Climate, culture and contemporary living in Malaysia.

Making a home means making memories – memories that come from the complex layering of interaction and place

This residence by Ministry of Design makes the most
of water and light in Singapore

When the owners of Tobias Partners’ homes
open their front doors, it feels as though they are inviting guests to
understand a piece of themselves.

BASE Architecture’s Wickham Apartment in Queensland’s Fortitude Valley represents
the uniting of old and new and clever balance between wide openness and warm
privacy in a single space.

Architect Sunny Wilder’s timber pavilion
radiates a summer zest and perfectly taps into its owners’ excitement about
enjoying the outdoors