Dream Build

Shane Hendriks, a builder & 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.

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.

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 light-filled 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.

Imagine a house perched amongst the gum trees looking like a giant silkworm cocoon.

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.

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

Richard Cole is an architect with over twenty years' experience and he seems to specialise in building magnificent homes in impossible locations!

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.

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

The Stone Age collides with the Space Age in this Dream Build home at Runaway Bay on the Gold Coast.

Sitting in a streetscape of Victorian style cottages typical of Melbourne, Model House doesn't stand out - and that's the point of the design for this new modern home.

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

When one family bought two neighbouring houses with both houses in need of repair & update, a novel solution to their restoration was found; to create a single building but with separate living spaces.

It would usually be a TV disaster: on the day before filming began, spray-paint vandals "tagged" a home being profiled by Dream Build in Fitzroy.

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.