Sep 6, 2026 – 10.20amWhen most people visit a rocky escarpment on the edge of a cliff surrounded by wilderness within Australia’s most extreme bushfire rated zone, their first thought is unlikely to be: “this is the spot to build the family home.”But, for architect Jeffrey Bokey-Grant and his client Leah, that’s precisely what they did – creating a brick-wrapped oasis on the fringe between bushland and suburbia in Mittagong, in the NSW Southern Highlands.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
How COVID-19 and extreme bushfire threat forged an architectural gem
An abandoned plot of land at the end of a suburb overlooking a dramatic gorge became the site of a sleek solution for fire-risk structures.
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