Grand Designs Australia - Season 12

First aired: 10/16/2025 8 episodes

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.

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Episodes

1. Cygnet Earthship

Aired: 10/16/2025

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

Aired: 10/23/2025

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

3. Rye Cave

Aired: 10/30/2025

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

Aired: 11/6/2025

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

Aired: 11/13/2025

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

Aired: 11/20/2025

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

Aired: 11/27/2025

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

Aired: 12/4/2025

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.