A Sydney architect has created a 'bushland oasis ... which open onto a sunlit courtyard reminiscent of a villa on the French Riviera. A 25-metre swimming pool skirts the outside of the house ...

As a result, his four-bedroom, five-level family home, The Seed House – which sits swaddled in bushland in Castlecrag ... it was one of the first buildings in Australia to use cross-laminated ...

In 1998, Kuter and her late husband Leo, a civil engineer, snapped up the 19.02ha bushland ... oasis,” she says. Leo designed a concrete hearth, with a fireplace upon it, that warms the open ...