After considering many options, the clients decided their well located home was exactly where they wanted to be - they just needed some more space. The challenge was to improve this compact home on a tight site with conservative urban design requirements, and make it suitable for a growing family. With garden space at a premium, the only option was to provide the additional sleeping space on another level, with the ground floor adapted and improved to suit. The design team at PIDCOCK - Architecture and Sustainability responded creatively to the clients needs and the site environment with the new accommodation fittig within a sensitively adapted roofscape that pays homage to the original so that it looks like it has always been there. Working with builders Blade Developments, Amuheat's contribution to the projects sustainable design is a gas powered hydronic radiator heating system. With consideration given to the improved thermal performance incorporated in the new homes design and the ability to zone areas of the house, a range of suitably sized hydronic radiator panels have been strategically fitted throughout the home to provide comfort heat during cooler months of the year.

This exquisite home is arguably one of Bronte's finest properties, an inspired creation by Mary Ellen Hudson architects. The home is unparalleled in design and craftsmanship. Built from formed concrete, glass, copper and wood, the house has a soothing, neutral palette with interior spaces blending easily with the outdoors.

This new home is located in the Upper Orara valley in the sub-tropical hinterland of Coffs Harbour. The house sits high on a ridge with wide, open views of the surrounding landscape in all directions. The house has been designed as two wings with a central entrance, following the natural shape of the ridgeline. Large angophoras book-end the house to the east and west.

This new house is built on a tight corner block in Five Dock, overlooking Canada Bay. The house was designed for a family with three young boys. The design of the house takes into account the unique corner position and maximises the access to both views and northern aspect by stretching along the southern boundary – rather than occupy the middle of the block.