Lunchbox Architect featured project archives

When you think of an off-grid house you typically imagine a remote cabin in the bush, but these eco-townhouses tell a different story.

Embracing the garden with a huge double-height space, 7 metre-wide door and patterned screen which fills the home with dappled shade.

Three distinct options and three years later they settled on a design, but when you're building forever, take the time to get it right!

This addition to a historic bluestone farmhouse doesn't match the original building, but it pays its respects in its own way...

Revealing the layers beneath this dilapidated home helps to blend old and new, weaving a rich story from the home's existing fabric.

A home for a couple and a separate home for their adult children. Plus it's on a very public, very tricky triangular site!

This stunning modern Australian beach house has a whole wall of glass, taking in spectacular views of the beach and headland beyond.

When a couple who both have homes designed by the same architect get married, their new home together is bound to be adventurous!

New living areas and a backyard studio centred around a landscaped courtyard make this home perfect for current and future generations.

With numerous facets to bounce light around the home, Cloud House feels like living in a cloud surrounded by beautiful, diffused light.

A new asymmetrical frame encloses the original shack, wrapping new living areas all around to take advantage of the views.

These owners didn't want a 'generic open-plan box'. Instead, a series of interconnected rooms are linked by a dramatic brick colonnade.

When you have to hike up and down stairs all day, they may as well be fun! A new stair brings light and novelty to this home.

Running the two homes perpendicular to the street allows this dual occupancy design to maximise views and maintain privacy.

A new two-storey addition transforms Bill and Kate's home, connecting it to the backyard and creates dramatic interior spaces.

Emulating the solidity of the original 150-year-old cottage, this concrete and brick addition is sure to be around in another 150 years!

In spite of a narrow block, this home expands its interior to the edge of the site, blurring the line between indoors and outdoors.

This home defies its tight site by using screening and careful window placement to grab light and views without exposing itself.

Trying to fit a home on a tight, triangular block with a busy street on one side and an easement on the other: crazy or brilliant?

An incredible home for a much-loved grandmother allows her to live independently (but close by). It's better than a retirement village!

An addition to the front is just one of the atypical parts of this project full of surprises and innovative solutions.

A simple, two-room addition radically transforms the feeling and liveability of this previously dark, introverted home.