Dream Build: Season 2
16 Episodes
Dream Build is an interstitial series that explores the personal stories of Australians who have pushed the design brief to the limit and beyond, in pursuit of building the home of their dreams.
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08:21Episode 1
Rolling Cubes
Episode 1
Shane Hendriks, a builder and designer, took an idea from his son's building blocks and built a house of five cubes. Arranged in an ark to maximise the northerly aspect of the sun, it has a sense of rolling, tumbling movement.
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08:31Episode 2
Inner House
Episode 2
What do you do with a heritage listed church, where the heritage requirements dictate that nothing of the new structure can touch the walls of the heritage listed building? You build an inner house.
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08:23Episode 4
Flipped House
Episode 4
A house which draws on the joy of 60's designs and the mid 20th century modernism style's love of natural products.
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07:06Episode 5
Cocoon House
Episode 5
Cocoon House is a marriage of art and architecture. Its creators describe it as a "sculpture in the round" that can be appreciated from all angles.
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07:31Episode 6
Jilliby House
Episode 6
Americans Mickey and Lanie Clark have built a remarkable bushland home after a two year work trip turned into a 20 year love affair with the Australian landscape.
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08:41Episode 7
Angophora Home
Episode 7
Richard Cole is an architect with over twenty years experience and he seems to specialize in building magnificent homes in impossible locations!
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07:01Episode 8
Wheatsheaf House
Episode 8
Architect Jesse Judd designed this beautiful and engaging holiday lodge for his own family.
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08:03Episode 9
Stringybark
Episode 9
Owners and husband/wife team Justin Lindsell and Helen McBeth wanted to fulfil a lifelong dream of owning a glass pavilion pole home in the picturesque town of Crafers in the Adelaide Hills.
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07:35Episode 10
Runaway Bay
Episode 10
The Stone Age collides with the Space Age in this Dream Build home at Runaway Bay on the Gold Coast. The house combines two contrasting styles representing the differing personalities of its husband and wife owners.
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08:38Episode 11
Model House
Episode 11
Architect, Jeremy Mcleod, says the house really is like a stage, the facade of the house is the set which faces the audience while 'backstage' in the house itself all of the living and working gets done
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08:06Episode 12
Link House
Episode 12
Built on the site of the owner's childhood home 'Link House' is house designed to last.
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07:40Episode 13
House House
Episode 13
With its unique and imaginary design this inner city house points the way to a new kind of approach to 21st century urban Australian home design.
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08:55Episode 14
Bisley House (The Black Box)
Episode 14
The owner of The Black Box is a self confessed "boy from the 'burbs" who wanted to make his architectural mark... in the suburbs.
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08:34Episode 15
Wolf House
Episode 15
The Wolf House is designed by an architect who loves his family, his Star Wars collection and his classic cars, and it certainly shows in the design of his new dream home.
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08:13Episode 16
Graffiti House
Episode 16
Fitzroy is known for its extraordinary street art, prestigious architect John Wardle is not. But he embraced the chance to include graffiti in this innercity Melbourne home.