For the 12th season of Grand Designs Australia , architecture professor Anthony Burke is seeing a shift. In the age of rapidly rising house prices and a cost-of-living crisis, the definition of what is a “grand design” is being reimagined.

“We’re leaning into the issues of the day a lot more,” says Burke. “The way I put it is, we’re still called Grand Designs Australia but it’s really about grand ideas and ambitions. People are bringing innovation into the idea of home in Australia with a fresh energy but they’re not necessarily huge houses. That’s what’s exciting because there’s so much grassroots innovation happening.”

Grand Designs Australia host outside the ‘earthship’ house in Tasmania featured in episode one. Credit:

One example of out-of-the-box thinking is in the first

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