
Season 12
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

1. Cygnet Earthship
2025-10-16
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
2025-10-23
Following a cancer diagnosis, Gary and Lorilie set out to build a multi-million dollar multigenerational family home.

3. Rye Cave
2025-10-30
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
2025-11-06
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
2025-11-13
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
2025-11-20
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
2025-11-27
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
2025-12-04
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.