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This velvety freshwater pool and its monumental setting could be in Kakadu, but it’s a mere 20 minutes from the Melbourne CBD. The inspired creation of landscape designer Sam Cox, amazingly, it’s just four years old and constructed from the ground up – and down, due to a sizeable excavation.

When Sam first sighted the property, it was a humble suburban block with a new home at the front commanding spectacular views of the Yarra River. That left a generous, steep block at the back. Wild