Dream Build

What do you do with a heritage listed church, where the heritage requirements dictate that nothing of the new structure can touch the walls of the heritage listed building? You build an inner house.

Shane Hendriks, a builder and designer, took an idea from his son's building blocks and built a house of five cubes. Arranged in an ark to maximise the northerly aspect of the sun, it has a sense of rolling, tumbling movement.

Marimekko House is a home for a family of five busy adults. While quite modest in size the house features bold design incorporating landscaping, courtyards and a rooftop garden to create multiple lightfilled living spaces.

A house which draws on the joy of 60's designs and the mid 20th century modernism style's love of natural products.

Cocoon House is a marriage of art and architecture. Its creators describe it as a "sculpture in the round" that can be appreciated from all angles.

Americans Mickey and Lanie Clark have built a remarkable bushland home after a two year work trip turned into a 20 year love affair with the Australian landscape.

Architect Jesse Judd designed this beautiful and engaging holiday lodge for his own family.

Owners and husband/wife team Justin Lindsell and Helen McBeth wanted to fulfil a lifelong dream of owning a glass pavilion pole home in the picturesque town of Crafers in the Adelaide Hills.

The Stone Age collides with the Space Age in this Dream Build home at Runaway Bay on the Gold Coast. The house combines two contrasting styles representing the differing personalities of its husband and wife owners.

Architect, Jeremy Mcleod, says the house really is like a stage, the facade of the house is the set which faces the audience while 'backstage' in the house itself all of the living and working gets done

Built on the site of the owner's childhood home 'Link House' is house designed to last.

With its unique and imaginary design this inner city house points the way to a new kind of approach to 21st century urban Australian home design.

The owner of The Black Box is a self confessed "boy from the 'burbs" who wanted to make his architectural mark... in the suburbs.

The Wolf House is designed by an architect who loves his family, his Star Wars collection and his classic cars, and it certainly shows in the design of his new dream home.

Fitzroy is known for its extraordinary street art, prestigious architect John Wardle is not. But he embraced the chance to include graffiti in this innercity Melbourne home.