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Fjcstudio's World Architecture Festival (WAF) Building of the Year winner serves as a model for innovative educational spaces, emphasising the integration of First Nations culture and sustainability

Crisp, floating cabinetry and a Bauhaus narrative 'less is more' approach leads to a kitchen that's in the designer's words 'differently' beautiful 

This family home is grand yet understated, using modest materials in a modern, cohesive way to redefine the typical brick family home

As well as the expansive gabled skylight, steel portals provide the lighting for this kitchen space with each steel member having an LED strip to one side

A custom tile pattern continues up this shower wall giving further display to the bathroom's Macubus, Calacatta and Nero Maquina marble mosaics 

The pendants above this kitchen island serve a dual purpose – highlighting specific areas with a warm glow and at the same time adding to the overall visual appeal 

This immersive outdoor living design creates gentle connections from garden to climbing frame to the site’s stunning environmental surrounds

A textural terrazzo-look tile incorporating flecks of blue features in this children's upstairs bathroom – creating a playful mood with one deft design move 

This living room boasts a custom Living Flame fireplace (with reeded black steel back plate and no glass) that seems to echo the window shape alongside

Natural light penetrates this renovation in several ways – from classic window to central light shaft to room-long skylight to a wall of windows reaching into the gabled roof form

Three cladding elements combine on this character family home – Rockcote Spanish-style plaster; timber battens, from Abodo Natural; and La Poma bricks, by The Brickery

With light-filled family living/entertaining plus guest bedroom downstairs, and three roomy bedrooms upstairs, this G.J. Gardner showhome offers a relaxed lifestyle