Green Magazine

The “Camille sofa” by anaca studio was created according to the tenets of the furniture triumvirate: it’s comfortable, elegant and low maintenance. If that wasn’t enough, it’s sustainable too; like all furniture in the Camille range, the sofa is manu

Nina Tolstrup embodies quintessential Danish design in her furniture and architectural firm Studiomama. The practice is a collaboration between Nina and husband Jack Mama and embraces minimalist, pared down design across furniture, jewellery and arch

The Escarpment House by Atelier Andy Carson is a two-bedroom guest house located on a coastal NSW dairy farm in a derivative style of a rural farm shed. The relationship between interior and exterior is dynamic with copper exterior hydraulic fins tha

Sustainable House was built by Carter Williamson at Burwood Girls High School in Sydney to inspire the school’s “Sustainable House” subject. “We were part of a jury reviewing their sustainable housing models and we thought there was a need to engage

“It was a big, ballsy, brutalist building,” says Jenni Draper of her West Melbourne home. “That’s what the appeal was.” Five years back, when the rock-solid, three-storey fortress hit the market after four decades as an architect-designed legal offic

Maddison Architects maddisonarchitects.com.au Frank frank.net.au The project is an adaptive reuse of an existing office. The building is orientated east/west. Previously isolated office compartments have been opened up and consolidated into an open p

How much do you really need for a weekend retreat? That’s the question Ben Edwards, architect and director of Studio Edwards, asked when designing his holiday home. It needed to be warm in winter and cool in summer, but otherwise “it was about the am

The tiny suburb of Highgate in Perth still has many of its original buildings, including grand Federation homes, narrow workers’ cottages and a heritage-listed red-brick primary school, built in 1895 and one of the oldest in Western Australia. All th

Felix Oefelein Owner-builder The house is predominantly oriented to the north with full-height glazing across the entire ground floor living area. The upper floor overhangs the ground floor glazing, providing shade in summer but allowing the winter s

The journey north-west from Brisbane’s centre takes a winding route through residential enclaves before suburban sprawl disappears in rear-view and narrow mountain roads lined with towering eucalypts beckon. Approaching the hamlet of Samford a new wo

On a winter’s night, we can imagine toasting our fingers over the flames dancing in the “ellis firepit” from grazia & co. This Australian-made capsule has a corten finish and is designed to rust over time, giving it an earthy robustness perfectly fit

Much like blossoming fruit trees and blinding naked skin, rhizomes are another barometer for the return of spring and have a way of announcing that the winter war is nearly won and that things are looking up. When we spot the first freshly bundled bu

Four years ago Ann Woods, her husband and their two young sons opted for a sea change. They left behind the crowded inner-city suburbs of Sydney and headed south, to a house perched on the flank of the Illawarra escarpment, just north of Wollongong,

When a kitchen renovation freshened up this inner city townhouse, the outlook onto the garden wasn't coming to the party – it needed a facelift too. The owner asked Clea Cregan to design a garden that would extend the new look and make better use of

Turn right at the fork, follow your nose, then veer left at the big gum and you have reached the mother lode; a land rich in produce, chefs, winemakers, artisans and undulating hills and valleys. The visit to this former gold prospecting region of Da