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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Aftercare • Born out of frustration at the lack of ethical textile disposal avenues, this Melbourne company is repairing a frayed system, thread by thread, into a circular economy.

Playful Echoes • A Melbourne renovation captures the character of stylish clients confident with colour, a purposeful brief and a love of their neighborhood.

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Flame Trees • The architectural demands of responding to bushfire attack levels often result in a path of least resistance. But leaning into the problem can produce startling results.

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Snuck In • Creative subdivisions are famous in Fremantle and this lovely little house squeezed into a block that was once a backyard is a perfect celebration of making use of space.

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And Eat it Too • Long a sentinel for surfers, this elegant house now also keeps watch over a rigorous test case of carbon neutral building.

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Embroidered • Years of decay are unpicked, and a contemporary family home is stitched back together with borrowed landscape and honest materials to create so much more than the sum of its parts.

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Waste Proof • 1.7 tonnes of recycled and locally sourced materials have been diverted from landfill in this carbon negative fit-out, making it more than just a place of beauty for your morning cuppa.

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Easy Does It • A not-for-profit urban farm in Melbourne's inner north has eased its way into locals’ hearts by nurturing relationships, embracing change, and growing produce and programs in direct response to community needs.

Yard Work • Usually, the design process for architects goes house first, garden second. But delightful things occur when that script is flipped.

Bangalow Bungalow • Once you are in the hills behind Byron, swapping the beach for the trees - to say nothing of the sleepy little towns - quickly makes all the sense in the world.

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