14 of Australia's most striking architecturally designed homes | ArchiPro AU (2024)

With each design being custom, architecturally designed homes are fantastic projects to draw inspiration from for your own home building project. To help fuel your creativity, we've curated a selection of some of the most eye-catching architecturally designed homes from across Australia.

1. Euroa House - Robert Harwood Architects

The stunning Euroa House located in the Northeastern Victoria town of Euroa is rooted into an 800-metre high hilltop and immediately catches your eye with its grand seven-metre high zinc tower entrance with a portico front door. Surrounding this is the Corten Steel exterior that gives a sense of merging with the tones of the surrounding landscape. Taking over four years to design and complete the style of the house transcends styles and fleeting trends, and this sense of timelessness is no more apparent than in the house's surroundings. Granite boulders formed over hundreds of millions of years scatter the surrounding landscape. Instead of disturbing the land by having them removed, architect Robert Howard decided to keep them in place and construct the home around them.

2. Sussex Residence - mckimm

The industrial-toned Sussex Residence located in Brighton, Victoria, is a stunning family home with spacious interiors and one that's surrounded by gentle flowing water. The homeowners needed to create a space that was suitable for a family with four teenagers. To achieve this, the family decided to demolish the existing house located on the site to give mckimm's principal designer, Lorenzo Garizio, a blank canvas to create the family's dream home. The exterior is understated and doesn't protrude aggressively into the landscape or the streetscape, yet still provides passers-by with a striking vision without being too overt.

3. Remnant Rainforest - TDDP Architects

The Remnant Rainforest Hideaway, located in Mosman, Sydney, is a bright, airy home where natural light is abundant and one that has been designed with a nature-inspired theme at its core. On the top floor, you'll find four bedrooms oriented towards natural vegetation, light, and wildlife and the perfect spaces for a large family to enjoy. The family can enjoy a rear-facing kitchen/dining area on the first floor that opens to rainforest views and vegetation pointing towards Sirius Cove beach. Finally, in the tucked away bottom of the property, the family can enjoy a private office area away from prying eyes.

4. Castle's On Kingsclff - Create Architecture

Surrounded by eye-catching beachside views, the beautiful Castle's On Kingscliff in Kingscliff, New South Wales, is an eye-catching property. It features a luxury apartment on the first floor for the retired homeowners and a holiday home below for the couple's children to enjoy. The outstanding exterior feature has to be the nautilus-shell-inspired helical spiral staircase that connects the three levels.

5. Tropical Beach House QLD - Renato D'Ettorre Architects

Located on a remote island off North Queensland, this one-bedroom tropical beach house has been designed to withstand the extremes that tropical living can bring while allowing homeowners to enjoy the majestic surroundings. The guiding principle was incorporating glass against wind and rain and shutters for the heat and humidity. All materials used in the house's construction are natural in origin. The exterior is made from low-maintenance hardwood timbers and local basalt that wrap around a concrete base, while stone walls ground the structure in its native environment. What is evident is that the house truly captures a seamless integration between indoor and outdoor living.

6. Bermagui Beach House - Winter Architecture

The land hosting the Bermagui Beach House has been beloved by the owners for over four decades. To keep the original building present, the existing weatherboard shack was relocated down the road to make way for a newly designed home drawing on the owner's long-held connection to the land. The house is composed of three solid volumes, each loosely wrapped in a timber skin. The external weathered timber cladding and dune-like landscaping reflect the house's rugged setting, while on the inside, the interiors feature a carefully curated palette of white surfaces, soft sand, timbers, and robust brickwork for a soft natural finish.

7. Sea Change House - Solomon Troup Architects

Sea Change House, located in the coastal town of Barwon Heads, Victoria, lies on a street and is a low-maintenance dwelling with views in all directions. The home layout gives a north-facing orientation to all the primary living spaces. The screens surrounding the house are built from Western Red Cedar, a highly sustainable forestry product. These screens let natural light in, with the shape of the screens projecting innovative patterns within the inside of the home. At the back of the home, the living areas form a north-facing patio that provides a seamless entertainment area for the homeowners.

8. The Barn - Paul Uhlmann Architects

The Barn by Paul Uhlmann Architects was designed as a rural weekend getaway for a city couple and their children. The expansive ground floor is equipped with sliding doors that completely open up to provide a streamlined transition between the property and the sprawling lawn. Towering cathedral-like ceilings are paired with expansive windows to provide sweeping views of adjacent paddocks and lush bushland, while a bunk-room upstairs provides plenty of space for the family to enjoy.

9. Nakari Vista - Andever

Set atop 20 acres of rolling hills in Narre Warren East, Victoria,Nakari Vistais an architectural home where the architect's brief was to create a modern farmhouse in place of the three existing run-down cottages previously in its place. The house was designed to resonate with the surrounding native flora and fauna. While operating either as two separate houses or one interconnected residence. It's exterior is defined by a series of gable forms that emphasise the views of the surrounding bushland as 'segments' rather than as one continuous glass block. At the home's rear, a large open-plan patio area leads out to a tranquil outdoor pool and offers plenty of picturesque spots to enjoy the views of the surrounding landscapes.

10. The Split Home - Seidler Group

11. Horizon Beach House - Crosier Scott Architects

Horizon Beach House stands proud amongst a backdrop of coastal scrub, with sweeping views of the ocean below. This home's design had to consider the severely sloping embankment and the existing falls on the site. The home had to essentially be moulded into the slope to achieve this. It contains many standout features; the roof of the first floor doubles up as a spacious outdoor area where the occupants can relax and enjoy the panoramic views while enjoying easy access from the inside lounge. Safety-wise, the home had to meet extreme bushfire standards to ensure safety from the surrounding native bushland.

12. Contemporary Residence Bentleigh - Glenvil Homes

The Contemporary Residence is a standout home with an exterior with several stylish elements—the framed niches with sleek infill glazing contrast nicely with the remaining architecture and timber-clad garage. The house contains three living spaces and four bedrooms for the occupants to enjoy. The open-plan communal spaces provide an appealing atmosphere for entertaining while spilling out onto the landscaped garden and serene pool.

13. Royd Clan's Autonomous House - level architekture>konstrukt

The innovative, off-the-grid Royd Clan's Autonomous House in Geelong, Victoria, sits as a focal point on top of an 89-acre farm. The architect in charge of designing the property, Nadine Samaha, proposed that the house be composed of a series of pavilions arranged in a cluster to deflect strong winds and maximise exposure to the northern light and surrounding views. The angled walls were suggested to maximise the amount of natural light entering the interiors. The biophilic and passive-design principles aren't just found on the home's exterior; inside, the house is heated by a woodfire, which negates the need for other sources of heating, while an 80,000-litre water tank harvests rainwater from the home's roof for use on the farm.

14. Riverstone - Cumulus

Built on an exposed rise on the periphery of Launceston, Tasmania, Riverstone is an impressive sight to behold. A rough-sawn timber spans the home's prominent Western facade to provide both shade and privacy for the bedrooms inside the property while answering the bushfire protection requirements of the steeply sloping site. The open design and orientation of the property provide the home with passive ventilation that eliminates the need for air conditioning.

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