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.

Editorial

Green Magazine

Ensconced

Shade

Place

Floating

Entangled

What A Waste

GLOW

Fallen

Wine & Pizza

Majik

Bricks & Blocks

Resurrection

Marine Greens • With the help of notable local restaurants, a trio of innovators are on a quest to bring a highly sustainable, richly nutritious food source to our plates.

PREFABRICATION EVOLVES • No longer confined to simple shacks, prefab structures are becoming more sophisticated, with smaller pods incorporating passive house principles and using hemp panels, and larger structures doing more with modularity.

Making Sense • A collaboration between designers, builders and their nature-loving clients has opened up a Victorian home in Northcote to the elements, engaging the senses and creating a biodiverse, ever-changing habitat for humans and more-than-humans alike.

Specs

Unshackled • Minds collide to dig out the fabulously modest glories of a classic Australian beach shack.

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Ciao Bella • A commitment to a fading typology and the principles of modest re-use see an idiosyncratic coastal house renewed, but with its history on its sleeve.

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Back to Basics • This holiday house provides relaxed, resilient and thoughtfully designed spaces for three generations of a family to spend time by the seaside.

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Permaculture Tips

Sidewalk Terrazzo

Worm Castle

Porta-Luxe

Friends with Benefits • Creating a shared permaculture garden on a spare patch of local farmland has given eight intergenerational families both an endless supply of fresh, organic food and a degree of fun, connection and ease none of them saw coming.

Waterslide • A father and son team up for some hydrology fun and games, and tame a beautiful but difficult site in the process.

Clear and Present • There are countless ways to experience New Zealand's remote and secluded landscapes … and staying in a glass cabin is now one of them.

designbook

House to Watch the Sunset • 2005 • Agadez, Niger