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Key Contemporary Residential Properties in Australia – New Homes design updates

post updated 1 January 2025

New Australian Houses

e-architect select key new Australian Houses. We cover both completed properties and proposed residential building designs across Australia. Our focus is on contemporary homes.

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New Property in Australia – major additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

Adelaide Hills House, South Australia

Orient Street House, Fremantle

Blok Peregian House, Queensland

27 August 2024
Golden Point House, Victoria
Architects: Porter Architects

photo : Derek Swalwell
Golden Point House, Victoria
The Golden Point House is located in the inner-city suburb of Golden Point. The broad context encompasses a diverse mix of small/ large sized residential properties from the 19th century to contemporary.

6 August 2024
Gilay Estate, Mudgee, New South Wales
Architects: Casey Brown Architecture

photo © Penny Clay
Panoramic Camping Lookout, New South Wales
Located on a remote pristine mountain on a sheep station in central western NSW, this structure was the realisation of a dream for the client. Sited at the edge of a ridge surrounded by large granite boulders and ancient dead trees, the tower has panoramic views for hundreds of miles to the horizon.

5 August 2024
Bronte Reframe House, Bronte, New South Wales
Architects: Still Space Architecture

photo © Brett Boardman
Bronte Reframe House, Bronte, New South Wales
When the family of five first moved in, the house was dubbed the ‘playschool house’ due to its array of window shapes and heights, ‘none of which operated correctly,’ says Nina Still, director of Still Space Architecture. ‘While the owners cherished their coastal location, the house was uncomfortably hot in summer, cold in winter, and excessively noisy.’

13 June 2024
The Milldam, Port Sorell, Tasmania
Architects: Starbox Architecture

photo : Anjie Blair
The Milldam, Port Sorell, Tasmania house
The Milldam house is designed around the concept of ‘Rugged Luxury’ to directly reflect the tidal estuary. When the tide is out, the raw and rugged landscape is exposed while it is the direct opposite when the tide is in; an expansive body of water fills the estuary to provide a beautiful, clean, reflective landscape.

4 April 2024
Hidden House, Victoria
Architects: Eliza Blair Architecture and studio mkn

photo : Shannon McGrath
Hidden House Victoria, Australia property
Nestled at the back of a Victorian-era residence, Hidden House is a contemporary structure crafted from glass and concrete, seamlessly integrated into a lush garden. Utilizing the natural slope of the site and the grand presence of the original home, this modem extension remains discreetly concealed from street view.

29 March 2024
Patanga Cabin, Patanga Estate, New South Wales
Design: Fabric Architecture Studio

photo : Alex McIntyre
Patanga Cabin, New South Wales, Australia
Driven by the project philosophy of seeking harmony and balance between human habitation with ecological preservation, Patanga Cabin is at one with its site. Its simple form and shadowy exterior blend into the landscape, while framed views amplify the beauty and immediacy of the natural environment.

8 March 2024
Six Summerhouses, Mesa Aldinga Beach, Adelaide, South Australia
Architecture: Architects Ink

photo : Sam Noonan
Six Summerhouses, Mesa Aldinga Beach, South Australia
The Six Summerhouses located along the Aldinga Esplanade have stepped frontages, like birds in flight, each house is given their own identity.

Latest Australian House Designs Winter 2024

22 February 2024
The Seat, Tuerong, Victoria
Architecture: Atlas Architects

photo : Tess Kelly
The Seat, Tuerong, Victoria house
The Seat was not just affected by the global pandemic, it was born of it. Our clients, a semi-retired couple who bought the property on a whim, were seeking a weekender on the coast with room to breathe – a safe place for their grown family to escape, gather and relax.

16 February 2024
Island Point Residence, Queensland
Design: TPG Architects

photo : TPG Architects
Island Point Residence, Queensland, Australia
Island Point Residence is sighted on many levels, using each space to present an opportunity for a view without compromising privacy. Two main ‘tree house’ like volumes and an outdoor with a multitude of spaces and uses are the main themes for the composition of the residence.

11 February 2024
Native Dog Cabin, Bremer Bay, Western Australia
Design: Chindarsi Architects

photo : Photographica
Native Dog Cabin, Bremer Bay, Western Australia
The site for this WA property sits on a spur of land jutting out into the Southern Ocean between Bremer Bay and Dillon Bay. Enjoying ocean views to the east, south and west, it is surrounded by beaches and wild places.

4 February 2024
Marcus Beach House, Marcus Beach, Queensland
Design: Alexandra Buchanan Architecture

photo : Cathy Schusler
Marcus Beach House, Shire of Noosa, Queensland
Marcus Beach House is a contemporary alteration and addition to an existing beachside home with a convoluted plan arrangement. The brief was to provide privacy to the street frontage whilst creating an expansive open plan living space that connected these areas to front and rear gardens.

Courtside House, Mount Martha, Victoria

Robin Hill, Hobart, Tasmania house

3 January 2024
Caulfield North Residences, Caulfield North, Victoria
Architecture: Davidov Architects

photo : Enceladus Studio
Caulfield North Residences
Located in a tightly held inner-city neighbourhood, the Caulfield North Residences are a collection of 4 generously-appointed apartments set amongst lush gardens. Each home has been conceived with consideration to aspect, amenity and materiality.

27 November 2023
MH House, Saint Peters, Adelaide, South Australia
Architects: Architects Ink

photo : Sam Noonan Photography
MH House, Saint Peters, South Australia
MH House consists of a pavilion-style addition and the refurbishment of a dilapidated Victorian bluestone villa. The clients wished for a simple open-plan design, yet intimate in scale, for a new family living space with plenty of natural light and a strong connection to the outdoors.

13 November 2023
M House, Clareville Beach, New South Wales
Design: Rama Architects

photo : Anson Smart
M House, Clareville Beach, New South Wales
On the leafy shoreline of Clareville Beach, this new residential dwelling recedes behind a green canopy cascading from the rooftop down and growing up from below blurring the lines between outside and in. M House hints of Brazilian Modernism are seen in the concrete form with deep drawn-out eaves, voids and openness.

2 November 2023
Federal House, Federal, New South Wales
Design: Edition Office

photo : Ben Hosking
Federal House, New South Wales
Edition Office is an architecture studio encompassing cultural, social and technological research, enabling exploration of material expression, form and spatial practice. The experiential qualities of our work enable projects which re-articulate relationships between communities and place. Our buildings enhance and enable connections and interfaces which provoke, question and enrich both occupants and the public realm.

5 November 2023
Fenwick St Residence, Kew, Victoria
Architecture: Edition Office

photo : Rory Gardiner
Fenwick St Residence, Victoria
Edition Office is an architecture studio encompassing cultural, social and technological research, enabling exploration of material expression, form and spatial practice. The experiential qualities of our work enable projects which re-articulate relationships between communities and place.

5 November 2023
Wings Way House, Skenes Creek North, Victoria
Architecture: MRTN Architects

photo : Tom Blachford
Wings Way House, Victoria
Resilience and endurance were at the forefront of the minds of the family at Wings Way in Skene’s Creek. Having lost their original, much loved, family home to fire they needed the replacement design to provide a sense of safety and permanence that was missing from the fibre cement clad seventies home that preceded it.

5 November 2023
Mossy Point House, Mossy Point, New South Wales
Design: Edition Office

photo : Rory Gardiner
Mossy Point House, New South Wales

30 October 2023
Lyons House, Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Architecture: Moloney Architects

photo : Ben Hosking
Lyons St House, Ballarat, Victoria
Lyons House is a contemporary alterations and additions project for a down-sizing couple who wanted to create a home with ample sunlight, ease of access, and a close connection to the garden.

24 October 2023
Music Room House, Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales
Architects: Alexander Symes Architects

photo : Barton Taylor
Music Room House, New South Wales
After their previous architect terminated the project wishing to no longer work on single dwelling projects, the clients approached ASA with an approved DA and a desire to create a sustainable, healthy home that could meet their complex brief. The home is sited next to the “Sze Yup Temple” where burning of ink printed pray papers affects the local air quality at particular prevailing winds.

26 September 2023
Iron Chef Residence, Millswood, South Australia
Architects: Das Studio

photo : Anthony Basheer
Iron Chef Residence, South Australia
When a steel fabricator, a chef and their artistically driven daughters speculate a forever home, it begins to resemble a warehouse conversion, with grand steel gestures and areas for creative incubation. But when heritage conservation constraints and two beautiful, but frightfully situated river red gums suggest a different home entirely, a true collaboration between client and Architect emerge.

26 September 2023
Bike House, Melbourne, Victoria
Architecture: FMD Architects

photo : John Gollings
Bike House, Melbourne property
The site is a small 300m2 suburban block in southeast Melbourne. The brief was to design a new dwelling to accommodate a family of 4 while also including flexible spaces which can change as the children grow and the needs change. A collection of bikes also needed to be accommodated internally and externally as these are a major form of transport for the family.

22 September 2023
Winter Creek House, Trentham, Shire of Hepburn, Victoria
Architects: sense of space [SOS Architects] Architecture ; Interior Design: Studio Tom

photo : Nicole England
Winter Creek House, Trentham, Victoria
Winter Creek is a new residence on a truffle and cattle farm in Trentham, Victoria. The house is in a field surrounded by mature pine trees that create a striking context for the home. A large floating roof covers an open living area that feels very connected to the site, whilst intersecting with a shorter black box like form that provides a more intimate bedroom wing.

22 September 2023
Ramsgate Avenue, Bondi Beach, New South Wales
Design: MHN Design Union

photo : Martin Mischkulnig
Ramsgate Avenue, New South Wales Apartments
Defined by its innovative design, sculptural boldness and tactile materiality, Ramsgate Avenue represents a dynamic yet naturalised addition to its tightly-held Bondi locale.

18 September 2023
Dulwich Hill Duo, Dulwich Hill, New South Wales
Design and Project Architect: Blake Letnic Architects

photo : Katherine Lu
Dulwich Hill Duo, New South Wales House
Dulwich Hill Duo is a new semi-detached dual occupancy located in Sydney’s Inner-West that maximises efficiency of space and elevates everyday living within a small footprint. With housing affordability becoming an increasingly prevalent issue, the project offered an opportunity to not only provide a cost-effective outcome for our clients but contribute to improving housing density and diversity within the suburban fringes.

17 September 2023
Hughesdale Extension, Hughesdale, Victoria
Design: Block Architecture Studio

photo : Sarah Godenzi Photography
Hughesdale Extension, Victoria
The extension to this 1920’s era red clinker brick original dwelling removed the previous lean-to addition, while lightly touching the existing fabric of the building. The extension sensitively opens the spaces out to a beautiful garden while creating a comfortable interior for the residents to enjoy.

17 September 2023
Jay Esplanade House, Port Melbourne, Victoria
Design: Eckersley Architects

photo : Pier Carthew
Jay Esplanade House, Victoria
Nestled in the charming neighborhood of Port Melbourne, Esplanade House is designed to create a bold statement amongst its natural surroundings. Its perfect location on a corner site adjacent to Edwards Park, allows uninterrupted botanical views whilst creating the sense of security and privacy of an intimate home.

16 September 2023
Tietz House, Blackheath, New South Wales
Architects: Design King Company

photo : Luke Butterly Photography
Tietz House, New South Wales
The second stage of our Blackheath project is now largely complete. After the completion of the Studio some time ago, this remaking of the existing house makes sense of the site and context and the relationship between the two buildings.

15 September 2023
Indooroopilly Residence, Queensland
Design: REFRESH*DESIGN

photo : Christopher Fredrick Jones
Indooroopilly Residence, Queensland
The Indooroopilly residence is a contemporary home located on an inner-city suburban block with prospect onto a golf course. The architecture draws cues from modernist principles of heaviness and lightness with solid volumes that appear to float, creating an open and dynamic ground floor plane for living.

6 September 2023
Highlands House, Southern Highlands, New South Wales
Architects: Luke Moloney Architecture

photo : Tom Ferguson Photography
Highlands House, New South Wales
The Highlands House in the Southern Highlands was designed to sit discretely in the landscape. Its materials will grey off over time and take on the colours of its bushland setting.

Mt Buller Ski Lodge, Victoria

House in the Dry, Tamworth, NSW

The Pad in Western Australia property

Patterson Lake House, Melbourne

Bike Shed House, Melbourne property

Euroa House, Kelvin View, Victoria

Tunnel House, Brighton, Melbourne

Elanora Residence, Mooloolaba, Queensland

Hunter Residence, Adelaide, South Australia

EPSC Residence, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria

Australis House, Queensland

Black Betty House, Brisbane, Queensland

Hunters Hill House, New South Wales

Moonah Tree House, Barwon Head, Victoria

1 Jun 2023
Doyle Residence, Alexandra Avenue, Rose Park, Adelaide, South Australia
Architects: Glasshouse Projects

photo : Aaron Citti
Doyle Residence, Rose Park, South Australia
Doyle Residence is an extension and partial restoration of a character villa located in a historical conservation zone, in one of Adelaide’s premier suburbs, Rose Park.

14 May 2023
Piermont, Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Architects: Rachcoff Vella Architecture

photo : Lean Timms
Piermont House, Ballarat Central, Victoria
This ten-year retrospective of much-loved project investigates how architecture can continue to reward its occupants over time. Through the unique lens of Lean Timms and cleverly styled by Lynda Gardener this romantic view captures the life of a home within its beautiful environment.

10 May 2023
Moonah Tree House, Barwon Heads, Victoria
Architecture: Kirby Architects

photo : Jacqui Henshaw
Moonah Tree House, Barwon Head, Victoria
The Moonah Tree House is an unassuming beauty, this coastal home is crafted from understated natural materials that have been worked in a master craftsman-like manner.

9 May 2023
Fernberg House, Paddington, QLD
Design: Tim Stewart Architects

photo : Christopher Frederick Jones
Fernberg House, Paddington, QLD
Nestled atop an elevated site in Paddington, Fernberg is a contemporary family home aspiring to seek a balance between private retreat and outdoor living. Fernberg House is crafted from a robust and natural palette of materials, the home is warm and inviting with expansive openings to uninterrupted city views, and seamlessly integrated landscaping.

27 Apr 2023
Mermaid Quay House, Noosa, Sunshine Coast, southern Queensland
Design: Type Architecture

photo : Mitchell Kemp
Mermaid Quay House, Noosa, Queensland
The lines between private and public are clearly divided between the ground and upper floor. The ground floor features an expansive living, dining and kitchen area for friends and family to lounge and enjoy the river view.

3 May 2023
Buderim House, Queensland
Design: Alexandra Buchanan Architecture

photo : Toby Scott
Buderim House, Sunshine Coast, Queensland Home
Sitting on the edge of an escarpment the Buderim House is afforded majestic views North-East over the Sunshine Coast. Both, private and expansive, this dwelling was imagined as a sanctuary, for a couple with transient adult children, between a sprawling landscape to the north and a populated residential street to the south.

14 Apr 2023
Windsor Castle Seddon, Victoria
Architecture: Antarctica Architects

photo : Field Carr
Windsor Castle, Seddon, Victoria
The existing single fronted weatherboard cottage on the ‘Windsor Castle’ site had undergone multiple alterations over the last 10 years and was stretched beyond its limits for the growing family of 5. Located in the middle of the site with poor orientation and 4 neighbours, the existing building offered little opportunity to expand.

27 Mar 2023
Night Sky, Blue Mountains, New South Wales
Architects: Peter Stutchbury Architecture

photo : Brett Boardman Studio
Night Sky House, Blue Mountains, New South Wales
The Night Sky building stands on a long, narrow block overlooking Blackheath Golf Course. From the street, it has a quiet presence, in no hurry to reveal itself – there are no obvious clues that this is a house that is both raw and refined; that has strength and power but, at the same time, a delicacy that speaks of the human hand.

27 Mar 2023
Residence 264, Adelaide, South Australia
Architects: Enzo Caroscio Architecture

render : Peter Fisher Photography
Residence 264

28 Feb 2023
House 9D, Gold Coast, Queensland
Architecture: Mi Design Studio

photography : Cam Murchison, May Photography and Villa Styling
House 9D, Gold Coast, Queensland

22 Feb 2023
Newport Houses, Redcliffe, Brisbane, Queensland, Northeast Australia
Architecture: Michael Bailey (Open Architecture Studio) + Jasper Brown (Jasper Brown Architects)

photo : Cathy Schusler
Newport Houses in Redcliffe, Brisbane QLD