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

Upfront

Richly layered • Fiona Brockhoff’s gardens are textured, sustainable and site-specific, with an aesthetic that has helped to define what an Australian garden is.

Full Circle • This beachside weekender remembers the previous house on the site and, as a home for a beautiful art collection, pays homage to the First Australians who walked this land.

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Future House • An architect-designed prefab house, called Dimensions X, is both affordable and sustainable, with the first prototype already built at the Krinklewood vineyard in NSW.

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Thinking Big • This tiny house in the bush meets a huge brief – artists’ residence, family getaway, meditation retreat and weekend rental – all in an utterly exquisite setting.

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Windbreak • Built on ex-farming land in northern Tasmania, this house makes the most of incredible views while shielding its inhabitants from year-long blustery winds.

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Refined Design • Set in a Queensland eco village, Lemontree Lane House has been designed to give back to the landscape, with a highly efficient footprint, reduced energy consumption and low site impact.

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Permaculture Tips

Upfront Garden

Remaking the Land • Two Sydneysiders have upturned traditions and proved sceptics wrong with an ethical approach to farming and land regeneration, and an award-winning EcoHut to boot.

New Life • Conservationist Ann Scoles has transformed the garden of her new house in the suburbs into a regenerative project rich with native plants, a fern garden, veggie patch and returning microbial life.

Great Gariwerd • A series of hike-in cabins designed by McGregor Coxall and Noxon Giffen offer opportunities for rest and rejuvenation on the stunning Grampians Peaks Trail.

designbook

Skybox • 2001 • Wellington, New Zealand. Te Whanganui a Tara Architect: Gerald Melling, Melling Architects