Season 12
October 16, 2025
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.
10 Episodes
Episodes
Cygnet Earthship
October 16, 2025
Locked out of Melbourne's soaring housing market, Matt and Kate move to Tasmania to build two Earthships with no building experience.
Horse Shoe Hill
October 23, 2025
Following a cancer diagnosis, Gary and Lorilie set out to build a multi-million dollar multigenerational family home.
Rye Cave
October 30, 2025
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.
Dover Heights
November 6, 2025
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.
Blue Mountains Tardis
November 13, 2025
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.
Sherwood River
November 20, 2025
Richard Rowles plans to live with climate change, by building a flood proof house on the banks of the volatile Brisbane River.
Yass Earth Berm
November 27, 2025
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.
Interlaken Lodge
December 4, 2025
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.
Hunter Valley
December 11, 2025
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.
Yarraville Pigeon
December 18, 2025
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!
