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Studio Bright’s Hedge and Arbour House in Melbourne’s inner north-east won the Robin Boyd Award for residential architecture. The top honour for new house design was given with particular praise for innovation in combining the natural environment with modern living. “The house itself is wrapped in a galvanised steel-mesh arbour, a simplifying element that also allows the landscape to subsume the house almost entirely,” the jury citation said. “Once inside, the spaces provide a calming refuge in constant connection to the views of the bush landscape beyond.”