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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.

Light House by Studio iF honours its ’80s heritage in the redesign

Light House by Studio iF honours its ’80s heritage in the redesign

Studio iF observed a restrained approach for this 1980s intermediate terrace house, treating the original property with sensitivity and respect rather than erase its architectural identity.

Dated ‘60s house renovated into a modern family home that embraces the great outdoors

Dated ‘60s house renovated into a modern family home that embraces the great outdoors

Quod Architects designs an environmentally-sustainable ‘outdoor house’ fit for Singapore’s tropical climate, marrying nature and the man-made, present and future.

Climate change is right now, and architect James Davidson is ready

Climate change is right now, and architect James Davidson is ready

Architect James Davidson of JDA Co. wants to move the dial faster on making homes safer, insurance cheaper and enabling communities to rebuild better when natural disaster strikes.

Living Grid House uses window boxes and plants as a clever solution to heat and privacy

Living Grid House uses window boxes and plants as a clever solution to heat and privacy

Designed with a contemporary gridded form, the aptly named Living Grid House by L Architects deals with Singapore’s tropical climate in a clever manner.

Terrace house with split-levels, skylights and indoor gardens

Terrace house with split-levels, skylights and indoor gardens

Formwerkz Architects employs a medley of judicious manoeuvres to create a light-filled, interactive terrace house filled with the pleasantries of plants.

NT Government’s request for tend, Key Worker Accommodation

NT Government’s request for tend, Key Worker Accommodation

Looking for a project where architecture can make a difference? The Northern Territory Government is taking tenders for Key Worker Accommodation in Alice Springs and Katherine.

MAKK Architects imparts humanistic qualities to the House at Jalan Seruling

MAKK Architects imparts humanistic qualities to the House at Jalan Seruling

The House at Jalan Seruling, described by the owner as a “house that breathes”, is an emotive spatial outcome by MAKK Architects that integrates structure, activity, and the language of architecture.