You know when you’ve found the one. You can’t help but imagine what the future looks like – and it just feels right. Just ask the team at studio gram. One of Australia’s leading – and multi-award-winning - architecture and interior design practices was casually looking around, playing the field if you will, when it found its match. Its new home. “It felt like a space we could truly shape rather than simply occupy,” studio gram director Graham Charbonneau tells Place Journal.

More than 750 kilometres separate Port Willunga on South Australia's picturesque Fleurieu Peninsula and Melbourne’s CBD. A gap today brought together by a nine-hour drive or a 75-minute flight. But for husband-and-wife renovators M & M during the Covid pandemic, it was distance that just couldn’t be measured. Living in Victoria after work brought them back a second time five years earlier, the couple were forced to cut ties with what they always hoped would be their “forever

Breeze blocks — those decorative concrete blocks that defined mid-century Australian architecture— are experiencing a major comeback in 2026. And it's not just nostalgia driving this design trend. DIY renovators and architects alike are rediscovering how breeze blocks solve real renovation challenges while creating stunning visual impact. With the help of The Breeze Block Company , who are helping with the revival in Australia, here’s what you need to know. Why breeze blocks