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Expansive and modern on the inside, this home's rugged cladding – standing seam metal, vertical shiplap weatherboard and concrete tilt panel – creates a dramatic, all-together-rustic first impression

This thick Valcucine island top houses drawers to maximise storage options

One minute a beautiful custom Japanese screen, next your favourite tipple appears like a mirage – all part of a sculptural kitchen design with a difference

For this long, narrow home, a modest frontage gives way to a double height central element followed by a beautiful indoor-outdoor pavilion at rear

Gleaming Spanish marble wall tiles and rich matai flooring accentuated with subtle lighting create a warm, spa-like serenity in this ensuite, part of a generous, flowing master suite

For future easy access in this bathroom, all the storage is behind the mirror cabinet fronts and open shelving rather than under-bench 

Award-winning designer Annika Rowson takes an individual approach to kitchens, using timber and natural products to create timeless designs

Cool stone tiles in varied sizes and patterns run through this tropical home, while exposed concrete and a marble benchtop also feature

This renovation increases the home's sense of space in part through pale wall and decor treatments and the choice of low, neutral coloured furniture 

Looking to draw the tones of your kitchen together in one harmonising feature? For this design, a benchtop anchors the principal colours

This august home, built in the 1960s, has been completely stripped down to create lighter, larger and brighter spaces – the centrepiece atrium is not hard to spot

Global workplace expert Unispace has built its first Covid-responsive workplace in a prime example of physical meets digital in a post-virus era