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Home in the Queenslander style. Australian residential architectural styles have evolved significantly over time, from the early days of structures made from relatively cheap and imported corrugated iron (which can still be seen in the roofing of historic homes) to more sophisticated styles borrowed from other countries, such as the California bungalow from the United States, the Georgian ...
This is a list of historic houses or notable homesteads located in Australia.The list has been sourced from a variety of national, state and local historical sources including those listed on the Australian Heritage Database, on the various heritage registers of the States and territories of Australia, or by the National Trust of Australia.
6 January 2017. ( 2017-01-06) –. present. The World's Most Extraordinary Homes is a British documentary miniseries presented by Piers Taylor and Caroline Quentin and is broadcast on BBC Two. [1] The series was also picked up by Netflix between March 2018 and July 2022.
Australian architecture is characterised largely by an international style with moderate alterations, such as the colonial style R.G. Menzies House in Canberra. This is a modern recreation of early American Colonial. Australia Square in Sydney, emblematic of 1960s modernism, was designed by Harry Seidler. Crown Sydney.
Grand Designs Australia is an Australian observational series on The LifeStyle Channel. The series, which is a local adaptation of the British series of the same name, sees host Peter Maddison chronicle the construction of grand and unusual houses. Series overview Season Episodes Originally aired First aired Last aired 1 9 21 October 2010 (2010-10-21) 16 December 2010 (2010-12-16) 2 10 5 April ...
This is a list of lighthouses and lightvessels in Australia. Australia has a coastline of 25,760 kilometres (16,010 mi), [1] with over 350 lighthouses and navigational aids around the Australian coastline, [2] and a single inland lighthouse, the Point Malcolm lighthouse.
Horbury Terrace (c.1843) in Sydney is one of the earliest surviving examples of terraced housing in Australia. Terraced housing in Australia ranged from expensive middle-class houses of three, four and five storeys down to single-storey cottages in working-class suburbs. The most common building material used was brick, often covered with stucco .
Federation architecture is the architectural style in Australia that was prevalent from around 1890 to 1915. [3] The name refers to the Federation of Australia on 1 January 1901, when the British colonies of Australia collectively became the Commonwealth of Australia . The architectural style had antecedents in the Queen Anne style and ...