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.
Episode 1
Cygnet Earthship
Oct 16, 2025
Locked out of Melbourne's soaring housing market, Matt and Kate move to Tasmania to build two Earthships with no building experience.
Episode 2
Horse Shoe Hill
Oct 23, 2025
Following a cancer diagnosis, Gary and Lorilie set out to build a multi-million dollar multigenerational family home.
Episode 3
Rye Cave
Oct 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.
Episode 4
Dover Heights
Nov 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.
Episode 5
Blue Mountains Tardis
Nov 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.
Episode 6
Sherwood River
Nov 20, 2025
Richard Rowles plans to live with climate change, by building a flood proof house on the banks of the volatile Brisbane River.
Episode 7
Yass Earth Berm
Nov 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.
Episode 8
Interlaken Lodge
Dec 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.
Episode 9
Hunter Valley
Dec 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.
Episode 10
Yarraville Pigeon
Dec 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!