One house, designed for your block and your life, with the knock-down-rebuild question answered honestly first.
Book a Feasibility SessionA new home is the purest architectural brief and the easiest one to waste. Volume builders sell floor plans by the square metre; an architect designs the one house that fits your block's sun, slope and street, your household's actual life, and a budget agreed before the drawing starts. The difference shows up every morning the light lands where it should, and every bill the thermal design keeps small.
The knock-down-rebuild question deserves arithmetic, not sentiment: what the existing house would cost to fix, what the block could carry new, and which path serves the next twenty years. We run that comparison at feasibility with drawings on both sides, and we have no stake in the bigger answer, the fee is fixed either way. Where the house deserves saving, we say so; our renovation lane is the other half of the practice. Where the block deserves better, the new home starts from the site: orientation first, then plan, then form.
A house that fits its block like it grew there. Rooms placed where your life happens and light follows it. Running costs engineered down before the slab is poured. And a build process where the architect who drew it stays accountable through construction.
Single-dwelling pathways, incl. the deemed-to-comply route for smaller lots.
Check before you demolish.
The straight comparison.