Season 12

Architecture Professor Anthony Burke is back with a brand new series of Grand Designs Australia following some truly brave home builders taking on the challenge of a lifetime.

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   1. Cygnet Earthship

   2025-10-16 · 57m

   Locked out of Melbourne's soaring housing market, Matt and Kate move to Tasmania to build two Earthships with no building experience.

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   2. Horse Shoe Hill

   2025-10-23 · 57m

   Following a cancer diagnosis, Gary and Lorilie set out to build a multi-million dollar multigenerational family home.

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   3. Rye Cave

   2025-10-30 · 58m

   At Rye on the Mornington Peninsula, Ryan plans to build a unique home, with boulders in the living room, and his bedroom in a cave.

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   4. Dover Heights

   2025-11-06 · 57m

   Acclaimed Australian architect Ed Lippmann discovers transforming his childhood home into a signature steel and glass showpiece may be the most daunting assignment of his storied career.

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   5. Blue Mountains Tardis

   2025-11-13 · 56m

   Builder Nick is hoping to build his wife Rachel the ultimate house in the idyllic Blue Mountains; a place that for the first time in her life, she can finally call home.

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   6. Sherwood River

   2025-11-20 · 58m

   Richard Rowles plans to live with climate change, by building a flood proof house on the banks of the volatile Brisbane River.

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   7. Yass Earth Berm

   2025-11-27 · 57m

   Psychologist Paul North has employed his son Josh to take on the unique task of building a bullet proof earth berm house, deep in Victoria's Yass Valley, to protect them from bushfires and the extremes of climate change.

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   8. Interlaken Lodge

   2025-12-04 · 57m

   Richard and Erin Sims start out building a farm-style lodge, however it balloons into a building of epic proportions, complete with three 'wings', seven-metre-high chimneys, and thousands of hand-picked dolerite stones.

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   9. Hunter Valley

   2025-12-11 · 57m

   Rita and James have just 230 thousand dollars to self-build a sustainable, off-grid family home for themselves and their two kids. They plan to use recycled plastic bags, milk cartons, home-made bricks, and an earthen floor.

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    10. Yarraville Pigeon

    2025-12-18 · 55m

    In Yarraville, Victoria, a passive house builder starts a crusade to build the healthiest home in Australia on the site of an old pigeon club house!