Grand Designs Australia — 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.
About this season
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.
Episodes (10)
1. Cygnet Earthship
Aired 16 October 2025 • 57 min
Locked out of Melbourne's soaring housing market, Matt and Kate move to Tasmania to build two Earthships with no building experience.
2. Horse Shoe Hill
Aired 23 October 2025 • 57 min
Following a cancer diagnosis, Gary and Lorilie set out to build a multi-million dollar multigenerational family home.
3. Rye Cave
Aired 30 October 2025 • 58 min
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.
4. Dover Heights
Aired 6 November 2025 • 57 min
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.
5. Blue Mountains Tardis
Aired 13 November 2025 • 56 min
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.
6. Sherwood River
Aired 20 November 2025 • 58 min
Richard Rowles plans to live with climate change, by building a flood proof house on the banks of the volatile Brisbane River.
7. Yass Earth Berm
Aired 27 November 2025 • 57 min
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.
8. Interlaken Lodge
Aired 4 December 2025 • 57 min
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.
9. Hunter Valley
Aired 11 December 2025 • 57 min
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.
10. Yarraville Pigeon
Aired 18 December 2025 • 55 min
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!