Green Magazine

GREEN MAGAZINE is Australia's leading magazine for inspirational stories on sustainable architecture featuring local and international houses, gardens and profiles. Discover spectacular city, country and coastal homes and gardens featuring environmental design with lots of personality, as well as profiles on people engaged in new and exciting projects.

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Green Magazine

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Brick by Brick • Trillions of bricks are produced worldwide each year to meet construction demands, relying on hugely environmentally damaging processes including mining, firing and shipping heavy loads across continents. One small Australian masonry company is questioning all of this.

Made for Here • From inner city homes to rural and off-grid properties, each of these kitchens was designed for its place, for the needs of its owners and with the environment in mind. These three considered renovations, and one new build, balance restraint with a clear focus on sustainability.

Creature Comforts • A high-performing home packs a lot of program into a single-storey house for five, including flexible spaces for privacy and connection.

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Assemblage • No doubt there are easier ways to make a house on an island off an island off an island. But it certainly wouldn't be this one.

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Weather Withall • A vessel for childhood memories, seasonal light and sea breezes, Australian coastal architecture has a long history of humbly ageing in place.

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A Coastal Compact • As our ideas of coastal aesthetics evolve, cosy nooks and rich, warm material palettes inside are finally having their moment.

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Calling All Parts • In a wholly new definition of circular resource use, a municipal building feeds its own (massive) renovation.

upfront garden

Wagon's Wheel • At the intersection of academia, social housing developments and conceptual gardening lies a small studio overflowing with ideas.

Blown Away • A deceptively simple brief for a hardy, sheltering, naturalistic garden frames mesmerising views, softens architecture and feels like it belongs.

Roll Up Roll Up • When some of Asia's best designers and makers gather in a disused Balinese theme park, you get one of the world's most exciting new design fairs.

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