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Philippines-based artist David Griggs with his 2009 self-portrait "Zoloft Nation".

The two-bedroom condominium in the Philippines that artist David Griggs calls home, overlooks a train station and shopping mall. The apartment is small with shoddy ventilation. Paint fumes from his adjoining studio give him dizzy spells and crazed dreams. "You get immune to it but it's not healthy," he says.

Award-winning houses embrace new era of urban living

The circular lounge of the award-winning Rose House.

Can a building be both grand and modest? The Rose house in North Fitzroy resembles a curved castle turret, yet it's not forbidding. Despite its double-storey scale rising from the footpath, its hit-and-miss brickwork creates a permeable facade, providing views and privacy.