Grand Designs Australia
Grand Designs Australia: Season 12

Air Date

October 16, 2025

Episodes

8 episodes

Grand Designs Australia

Season 12

Overview

Architecture Professor Anthony Burke is back with a brand new series of Grand Designs Australia following some truly brave home builders taking on the challenge of a lifetime.

Episodes

Cygnet Earthship

1. Cygnet Earthship

October 16, 2025
57 min

Locked out of Melbourne's soaring housing market, Matt and Kate move to Tasmania to build two Earthships with no building experience.

Horse Shoe Hill

2. Horse Shoe Hill

October 23, 2025
57 min

Following a cancer diagnosis, Gary and Lorilie set out to build a multi-million dollar multigenerational family home.

Rye Cave

3. Rye Cave

October 30, 2025
58 min

At Rye on the Mornington Peninsula, Ryan plans to build a unique home, with boulders in the living room, and his bedroom in a cave.

Dover Heights

4. Dover Heights

November 6, 2025
57 min

Acclaimed Australian architect Ed Lippmann discovers transforming his childhood home into a signature steel and glass showpiece may be the most daunting assignment of his storied career.

Blue Mountains Tardis

5. Blue Mountains Tardis

November 13, 2025
56 min

Builder Nick is hoping to build his wife Rachel the ultimate house in the idyllic Blue Mountains; a place that for the first time in her life, she can finally call home.

Sherwood River

6. Sherwood River

November 20, 2025
58 min

Richard Rowles plans to live with climate change, by building a flood proof house on the banks of the volatile Brisbane River.

Yass Earth Berm

7. Yass Earth Berm

November 27, 2025
57 min

Psychologist Paul North has employed his son Josh to take on the unique task of building a bullet proof earth berm house, deep in Victoria's Yass Valley, to protect them from bushfires and the extremes of climate change.

Interlaken Lodge

8. Interlaken Lodge

December 4, 2025
57 min

Richard and Erin Sims start out building a farm-style lodge, however it balloons into a building of epic proportions, complete with three 'wings', seven-metre-high chimneys, and thousands of hand-picked dolerite stones.