Passive Design

Layered up

An efficient interior meets a layered façade of custom-designed breeze blocks and trees on this A-frame home in Semarang, Indonesia, designed by Tamara Wibowo Architects.

Envelope House

The Multi-Generational House

Green In More Ways Than One

When a couple from the sustainability sector approached Drawing Room Architecture to extend their home, there were a few challenges immediately facing the renovation.

This House’s Steely Façade Is Just A Mask

The rigid public frontages of K House belies the abundance of openness and warmth that has been cultivated by Ben Walker Architects within.

How A Californian Bungalow Grew With A Family

When the residents of a 1950s bungalow faced the ‘move or improve?’ dilemma, they opted for the latter – calling on THOSE Architects to make staying a reality.

Small Plan, Big Impact

Perched atop the windy hillside of Wellington, the impressive form of X-Marks House belies a deceptively compact floor plan.

Powerfully Passive

A memorable yet unassuming façade and material palette from MRTN Architects belies very considered, thoughtful architecture designed for a family of five.

Elevating Everyday Experience Through Architecture

Fitzroy Terrace by Taylor Knights heralds a highly considered contemporary design, that quite literally turns the conventional perception of the Victorian terrace on its head.

Folk Architects Designs A Playful Yet Pragmatic Extension

Storybook House is the tightly organised addition to a compact, Victorian-era terrace in Melbourne. The extension is highly functional, yet not without a sense of whimsy.

Peekaboo, We See You

Behind a modest Californian Bungalow in Victoria, a contemporary extension by Native Design Workshop is barely visible.

Architecture As A Backdrop For People And Life

Compact yet flexible spatial planning characterises this extension to a traditional, and largely untouched, workers cottage in Sydney by Mark Szczerbicki Design Studio.