Issue 95 comes out 4 January Order on its own or as part of a subscription.
In this issue, our annual kitchen feature, we look at five kitchens that offer unique ideas for design, energy, material selection and waste.
Beyond the kitchen feature, four houses tackle different challenges, from bushfire threats and regenerative land management to luxury without sustainability compromise and a beautiful example of architecture for aging in place.
Our gardens unite in their informality, one an experimentation in engaging community through a kind of wild beauty, spilling onto the pathway and demanding attention. We follow the journey of 13 mates in establishing a retreat in the northern NSW hinterland and the efforts of a designer and maker to build a collection of chairs that reignite a lost artform. Our Upfront and Upfront Garden pages are full of creative energy, using materials that are considered and experimental. It?s design that makes you think, feel and enjoy.
But up first, we profile Jeremy Lee from Mullumbimby studio JD. Lee Furniture.

Then, our kitchen feature, where the heart of the home is now fully embracing its role as an engine room of a house?s green credentials. Featuring kitchens by Office MI-JI, plain architecture, Zuzana & Nicholas, MRTN Architects, and SONELO.

Then, our first house feature; Passive House principles and BAL-FZ requirements work in tandem in this Blue Mountains house by Anderson Architecture, creating a small, sustainable, bushfire-resili...