Shou Sugi Ban

July 5, 2023

Shadow House by Grotto Studio is full of spatial poetry

When two school friends reconnected over a shared love of design and sustainability, the opportunity to collaborate did more than give new life to a 110-year-old house – it cemented a friendship while making a poetic story in the process.

June 21, 2023

A rural residence that sits gently in the landscape

Undisrupted views pass through Warr Ferrington, folding into one another. Encountering this home from below, it peeks out above fields of wheat-like grass, blending effortlessly into its setting.

June 7, 2023

This holiday cabin in Thailand is all about connecting to the natural world

The sunken outdoor bath at Wood and Mountain sits perched in the open elements, embracing the remote mountain surrounds.

April 26, 2023

Finding beauty through the pain of rebuilding

When 5.5 million hectares of NSW were burned during the Black Summer fires, much of the Shoalhaven district was catastrophically affected. Many people lost their homes, including Andrew, who returned to find his 1980s cedar home and 40-year-old garden destroyed.

April 6, 2023

Bell House and its experiments with Shou Sugi Ban

With a distinct love of Japanese charred timber as the base for the materiality, Bell House in Balmain brings dark and light, open and enclosed all together.

August 22, 2022

7 buildings dressed in black

Clad in a dark tones and materiality, these 7 black buildings are all dressed up – making for a striking exterior feature.

January 19, 2022

A holiday sanctuary

Corke Design Studio’s beachy getaway brings a distinctly Japanese aesthetic to The Great Ocean Road.

July 29, 2019

A Rammed Earth Home Inspired By Childhood Memories

Inspired by memories of the client’s childhood home, rammed earth provides a warm and textured backdrop to everyday life in this extension designed by Steffen Welsch Architects.

April 12, 2019

Shou Sugi Ban: The Art Of Charred Cedar

Five Australian architects and designers are embracing the centuries-old traditional Japanese technique of Shou Sugi Ban.