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Behind the Brand on the eve of Sustainable House Day with Helen Oakey

Behind the Brand on the eve of Sustainable House Day with Helen Oakey

Helen Oakey is CEO of Renew and, with Sustainable House Day 2025 upon us, she talks to us about the climate crisis and what people can do at the scale of the home.

Eight modern home styles forecast for 2025

Eight modern home styles forecast for 2025

The James Hardie Modern Homes Forecast, now in its second year, has been unveiled by design expert Neale Whitaker, highlighting eight key home styles that will shape the future of Australian architecture.

Don’t demolish Flemington Estate, says OFFICE – ‘Retain, Repair, Reinvest’

Don’t demolish Flemington Estate, says OFFICE – ‘Retain, Repair, Reinvest’

Australia’s only not-for-profit architectural practice, OFFICE, is supporting the residents of Victoria’s housing estates in their fight to save their homes and communities.

Chris Cole Architect wins top honour at the 2024 Fiji Architects Association Awards

Chris Cole Architect wins top honour at the 2024 Fiji Architects Association Awards

The Sydney- and Fiji-based architect has been honoured with the main award at the 2024 Fiji Architects Association Awards, held last week in Suva.

A windswept house filled with art

A windswept house filled with art

Pippins is an architectural response to the land itself, where the boundaries between built form and natural landscape dissolve into one continuous experience.

Big and beautiful – the work of Ash Keating

Big and beautiful – the work of Ash Keating

Ash Keating is a treasure in the landscape of Australian art. His works are powerful and dynamic and, while they can grace a home and provide beauty, large-scale they are masterpieces of awe and wonder.

Michael Drescher Q&A: Bringing the outside in with new apartment design

Michael Drescher Q&A: Bringing the outside in with new apartment design

DKO’s Interior Design Director on how to create community and specificity in interior design, and how apartment living is being reconceptualised.

Laid-back living done right in this Australian home

Laid-back living done right in this Australian home

Looking to engage with the streetscape and environs, this family home offers a fresh take on coastal living with a strong focus on sustainability.

Inner city oasis: We visit Rivière by Aria Property and Bates Smart

Inner city oasis: We visit Rivière by Aria Property and Bates Smart

Alice Blackwood visits Rivière by Aria Property and Bates Smart, pausing for an overnight stay, to explore the sustainability principles and design innovations underpinning Rivière’s unique lifestyle proposition.

Workification of home: The Indesign guide to work-from-home spaces

Workification of home: The Indesign guide to work-from-home spaces

With an estimated 40 per cent of the Australian workforce working from home, the push for functional home work spaces mirrors international shifts and is not about to turn around.

A home in which a team can live: Refinery House by Carr

A home in which a team can live: Refinery House by Carr

Adaptive reuse projects are creating a new and important genre of design where the past and present combine in a new and exciting direction. Case in point is Refinery House, recognised with an Honourable Mention at INDE.Awards.

RSDA brings Chandigarh to the Delhi suburbs in this family home

RSDA brings Chandigarh to the Delhi suburbs in this family home

Transplanting the essence of one Indian capital city into another, RSDA has retrofitted a family home with a finely tuned focus on colour, material and furniture.