Season 12

Season 12

2025-10-16
8 Episodes

Overview

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

Cygnet Earthship

1. Cygnet Earthship

2025-10-16

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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

2. Horse Shoe Hill

2025-10-23

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

Rye Cave

3. Rye Cave

2025-10-30

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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

4. Dover Heights

2025-11-06

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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

5. Blue Mountains Tardis

2025-11-13

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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

6. Sherwood River

2025-11-20

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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

7. Yass Earth Berm

2025-11-27

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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

8. Interlaken Lodge

2025-12-04

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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.