Winners revealed: 2025 Houses Awards

A modular island home designed by Blok Modular with Vokes and Peters has been honoured as the Australian House of the Year at the 2024 Houses Awards.

Blok Three Sisters, which also won the category award for Apartment or Unit, was praised by the jury "as an example of successful experimentation not only in design, but also in procurement, assembly and - most importantly - the ways an extended family can live alongside each other."

"Each unit is an example of the minimum needed to get the most out of this coastal location. The project is pragmatic and shows that architecture doesn't need to be flashy," the jury citation reads.

Winning the New House over 200 square metres category was Studio Bright's Hedge and Arbour House - in the words of the jury, "an intriguing yet rigorous built form interlaced with landscaped spaces" situated on the edge of suburbia and bushland. The award for New House under 200 square metres was bestowed upon Sawmill Treehouse by Robbie Walker, which was described by the jury as "a beautiful sculpture, perched on slender columns among the trees."

The full list of winners are as follows:

Blok Three Sisters - Blok Modular with Vokes and Peters

Hedge and Arbour House - Studio Bright

Sawmill Treehouse - Robbie Walker

Cloaked House - Trias

Carlton Cottage - Lovell Burton Architecture

Blok Three Sisters - Blok Modular with Vokes and Peters

Window, Window, Window - Panov Scott

Mess Hall - Architecture Architecture

Cake House - Alexander Symes Architect

Ellul Architecture

See the 28 commended projects.

Houses Awards are organised by Architecture Media, supported by Artedomus, Blum, Brickworks, James Hardie, Roca, Fulgor Milano, Architectural Window Systems, The Heritage Council of Victoria and Latitude.