Hardie™ Architectural Collection
A New Era
Established in 1888, James Hardie is a global leader in the production of high-performance fibre cement products and building solutions. The Hardie™ Architectural Collection marks the start of a new era, in which It’s Possible™ to Make Modern like never before. It’s a movement that’s reshaping perceptions and changing the way Australia builds.
Endless Design Possibilities
Embrace personalised design with a wide variety of profiles, textures and widths that can be painted in any colour. Create your dream home without compromise.
Trusted Protection
Hardie™ Architectural Collection products are fire and impact resistant, and resistant to moisture damage and termites. Every product is warranty-backed for peace of mind.
Long-lasting Beauty
Hardie™ exterior cladding is built for tough Australian conditions. It’s ready for what life throws at it, allowing you to love where you live longer.
Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding
Axon™ Cladding
Why trades love the Hardie™ Architectural Collection
The Hardie™ Architectural Collection is a game-changer for tradies. It cuts through the usual hassles of exterior cladding with carpenter-only installation, eliminating the need for multiple trades on site. Built tough from fibre cement, it handles everything from moisture to termites while giving you the premium look clients want. One supplier, one trade, endless design options—that's why tradies are making the switch.
Durability
Made from Hardie™ fibre cement, Hardie™ Architectural Collection products are durable, resistant to damage from moisture and termites, and deemed non-combustible.
Reduced Complexity
One supplier and one trade are all you need for exterior walls. All Hardie™ Architectural Collection products can be installed by a carpenter. Help save time and complexity with no need for brickies, renderers or specialist trades.
Design Versatility
A curated collection of cladding with distinctive textures and profiles that can be painted any colour and combined for personalised looks.
Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding boards interlock to form a distinctive groove, featuring a bevelled edge on one side and a straight edge on the other. This design creates deep shadows, giving the cladding its unique appearance.
Choosing the right cladding for your home
Embrace the endless design possibilities of this curated cladding collection. Combining the renowned durability and product performance of our existing cladding portfolio with distinctive textures and profiles, Hardie™ Architectural Collection allows architects, builders and homeowners to build from the ground up – without compromise.
Weatherboards
Deep-shadow 16mm-thick weatherboards enable clean butt joins. Combine with Hardie™ panels across multiple levels of a home, or to highlight architectural features.
Boards
At 14mm thick and with varying widths, Hardie™ fibre cement boards are individually installed to create feature grooves. Orient vertically or horizontally and use Hardie™ accessories to combine with any Hardie™ panel cladding.
Builder tip
Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding and Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding sets a new standard in building modern from the ground up. Designed for ease of installation, the collection can help you save on time and cost whilst delivering a consistent and quality finish.
Panels
From embedded texture finishes to vertical joint detailing, these 1200mm-wide panels are quick to install and bring subtle textures or profiles to facades.
Stria™
Stria™ Cladding Smooth
Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding
Axon™ Cladding Grained
Hardie™ Brushed
Linea™ Weatherboard
Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding
Axon™ Cladding Smooth
Matrix™ Cladding
Curated Combinations
Our hand picked exterior cladding duos—this collection offers endless design possibilities. To make selection easier, we’ve curated a range of cladding duos that combine to produce beautiful, personalised looks.
Builder tip
Pre-primed Hardie™ Architectural Collection cladding is ready to paint in any colour, giving you complete design freedom while maintaining the durability you expect from Hardie™ Fibre Cement.
Stria™ Cladding Fine Texture (Horizontal) & Linea™ Weatherboard
Harmonious horizontal lines combining a robust texture and a strong shadow.
Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding & Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding Bespoke board arrangements sing against the calm subtlety of a render effect.
Stria™ Cladding Smooth & Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding
Bold and pared back, this pairing celebrates strength and confidence.
Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding & Axon™ Cladding
A scheme that contrasts soft, natural texture with fine, precise lines.
Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding & Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding
Shifting light play through the day delivers an endlessly interesting facade.
Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding
With an embedded texture reminiscent of softly-brushed concrete, Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding delivers an exterior finish that’s visually sophisticated and dynamic to the touch. The cladding is inspired by the craftsmanship of brushed concrete and transforms with light and proximity. Well suited to ground floor and mixed-storey applications, Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding has the versatility to be used standalone, or paired with other claddings from the curated collection.
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Design tip
Used standalone or paired with other profiles, Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding is suited to ground floor and mixed-storey applications, so you can create modern looks without the constraints of traditional building materials.
Bennett St, Strathfield, NSW
Products: Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding and Axon™ Cladding
Design & Build: Futureflip
Orton Haus 2.1, Wickham, NSW
Products: Linea™ Weatherboard, Hardie™ Brushed Concrete Cladding
Design & Build: Orton Building
3 Fords Rd, Thirroul, NSW
Products: Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding
Architect: Alex Urena Design Studio
Builder: Innovation Building Group
Photography: Shaw Photography
Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding
An embedded sand-like texture delivers a modern render look without the need for a renderer. Calming and uncluttered, the subtle effect diffuses light to give a fine matte finish.
Design tip
Choose Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding for ground floor applications. Its subtlety draws focus to a building’s form and allows bold cladding profiles such as Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding and Axon™ Cladding to stand out.
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Kiora, Miranda, NSW
Products: Axon™ Cladding, Linea™ Weatherboard and Hardie™
Fine Texture Cladding
Design and Build: Futureflip
Photographer: Josh Hill
Nero St, Mittagong, NSW
Products: Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding
Builder: Palm Built Homes
Architect: Kathy Barnsley
Hartley House, Northcote VIC
Products: Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding
Builder: BuildHer Collective
Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding
Defined by its bold proportions and bespoke design flexibility, Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding enables the creation of stand-out, one-of-a-kind facades. Available in 200mm and 300mm widths, the panels can be arranged in unique combinations. The boards extend up to 4200mm in length to give tall walls continuity.
Design tip
Pairing vertical Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding on an upper storey with Hardie™ Fine Texture Cladding on the ground floor will effortlessly achieve a stunning ‘floating’ result.
Modern Farmhouse, Subur, QLD
Hardie™ Oblique™ Cladding Builder: Bakker Homes
Axon™ Cladding
Introduce drama and detail to your walls with the clean lines of Axon™ Cladding, ideal for contemporary upper storey and ground floor extensions. The grooved panels offer the fine detail of a vertical joint timber, while bringing Hardie™ fibre cement’s durability and ease of construction. Axon™ Cladding panels are available in 133mm and 400mm wide joints, with a grained texture option also available in the 133mm width.
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1 Nerissa by the Sea, Rye, VIC Products: Axon™ Cladding Grained 133 Design and Build: BuildHer Collective
Sandringham House, VIC Products: Axon™ Cladding Builder: Jada Homes Architect: Ellul Architecture Photography: Hamish McIntosh
Linea™ Weatherboard
Made to withstand our harsh and unpredictable climate, Linea™ Weatherboard is both tough and beautiful. Durable, low maintenance and with broad design potential, it looks fabulous when painted darker shades or offset by textured panels on multistorey homes. With Linea™ Weatherboard, you can harness the features and charm of traditional weatherboard styles, without the hassles of timber and with the benefits of Hardie™ fibre cement.
Stria™ Cladding Smooth
Featuring deep grooves from the thick shiplap cladding boards, Stria™ Cladding offers an easy, no-fuss way to deliver strong horizontal cladding lines in a modern home. Clean and sleek, Stria™ Cladding Smooth is the perfect solution for contemporary designs that require a bold but pared back aesthetic.
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1 Taylors of Berry, Bundewallah, NSW Products: Stria™ Cladding Smooth Photography: Josh Hill
Sunny Passive Haus, Alphington VIC Products: Stria™ Cladding Smooth Architect: Altereco
Builder Glux Builders
Photo: Marnie Hawson
Stria™ Cladding Fine Texture
Create a captivating facade with the sharp v-grooves and fine render texture of Stria™ Cladding Fine Texture. The 14mm thick board gives a robust feel on the ground floor and can be installed vertically or horizontally for ultimate design versatility. The marriage of distinct lines and subtle texture in a large format board, available in 3000mm and 4200mm board lengths creates tactility and evokes eye-catching exteriors.
1 Stria™ home Products: Stria™ Cladding Fine Texture used horizontally.
2 Stria™ home Products: Stria™ Cladding Fine Texture used horizontally and vertically.
Matrix™ Cladding
With a clean, modern, expressed joint appearance, Matrix™ Cladding offers a bold industrial aesthetic when an architectural panelised look is desired. Choose from various panel sizes and let the 10mm express joint create a variety of geometric shapes.
1 Summerhill House, TAS Products: Matrix™ Cladding Building Designer: Lachlan Walsh Design
Kew House, Kew, VIC Products: Matrix™ Cladding Builder: Clancy Constructions Architect: Rebecca Naughtin
Benefits of Hardie™ fibre cement
Design Versatility
James Hardie’s range of fibre cement products provide contemporary clean lines and pared-back aesthetics for homes with simple, bold forms.
Durable
Engineered to endure. Hardie™ fibre cement is fire resistant and resistant to damage from moisture and termites.
Fire Resistant
Hardie™ fibre cement will not contribute to the spread of fire.
Resistant to Moisture Damage
Hardie™ fibre cement is resistant to rot and moisture damage. It will also resist warping, swelling and movement.
Resistant to Termite Damage
Hardie™ fibre cement stands up to termite attack.
Flexible Colour
James Hardie’s range of fibre cement exterior products and interior linings are pre-sealed or pre-primed and ready to paint in any colour.
Low Maintenance
Hardie™ fibre cement is easy to clean and holds on to paint well.
25-Year Product Warranty
All Hardie™ residential exterior cladding, interior linings and flooring products have a standard 25-year warranty period.
All Hardie™ Fibre Cement is proudly Australian Made
James Hardie has proudly provided Australian made building products to the market for over 100 years. To achieve our vision of inspiring how communities design, build, and grow, it's important to ensure that homeowners and trade professionals know they can expect a quality product. By making our fibre cement in Australia, we proudly support local manufacturing capability, help create jobs, strengthen local industries and bolster surrounding communities.
Order a Sample
Experience our curated collection with a free sample. Trial your colour options by painting your sample with a low-sheen exterior paint, then see how all of the selections work together to ensure a cohesive palette. Our samples are cut to 20cm x 20cm—perfect for flatlays.
Your Hardie™ Toolkit
With our range of tools and resources at your fingertips, building dream homes with the Hardie ™ Architectural Collection is easy.
Hardie™ Product Catalogue
Our Hardie™ Product Catalogue is the trade professional’s go-to guide for all products and accessories, including recommended best usage for building and construction.
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Inspiration and Case Studies
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