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A Lot to Love
In a leafy residential area a few miles from downtown Kansas City, Missouri, an enterprising architect saw opportunity where others saw trouble. He took a sloping, triangular lot and designed a new...
written by: Georgina Gustinphotos by: Mike Sinclair02.12.10 -
A Modern Prefab Addition to a Mid-Century California Classic
A 1950s Joseph Esherick home in Berkeley, California, inspires an addition that pays homage to the past yet is poised to host the next generation.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Caren Alpert12.30.12 -
A New Slant
In Seattle, where others saw only a severe slope and lack of municipal hookups, one couple spotted their ticket to their dream home.
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Philip Newton03.07.11 -
A Platform for Living
Setsumasa and Mami Kobayashi’s weekend retreat, two and a half hours northwest of Tokyo, is “an arresting concept,” photographer Dean Kaufman says, who documented the singular...
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Dean Kaufman04.06.11 -
A Simple Plan
A Marmol Radziner–designed prefab house, trucked onto a remote Northern California site, takes the pain out of the construction process.
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Dwight Eschliman11.23.11 -
An Affordable High-Design Vacation Home in Mexico
By pooling their resources and giving their architect complete creative control, two busy Mexico City–based brothers built a high-design vacation home for just $70 per square foot.
written by: Robert Landonphotos by: Mauricio Alejo01.29.13 -
An Atypical Tree House
When a 40-year-old pine tree fell over at the rear of a Brentwood estate in Los Angeles a few years back, its owner, an art lover and a philanthropist, let it lie. The tree revived itself,...
written by: J. Michael Weltonphotos by: Eric Staudenmaier10.28.09 -
Bach to Basics
On New Zealand’s Great Barrier Island, two architects designed a petite holiday home that takes care of its own water, electricity, and sewage needs.
written by: Jeremy Hansenphotos by: Patrick Reynolds02.28.09 -
Building on a Shoestring in Singapore
Building on a shoestring is no mean feat in Singapore, especially when your home calls for a multilayered facade. Chang Architects, however, were more than up to the challenge.
photos by: Albert Lim KS01.10.13 -
Community of Vision
A mere eight miles from Mount Vernon, George Washington’s Georgian neoclassical plantation home, and just nine miles south of Old Town Alexandria, the colonial bastion that provides much...
written by: Sam Grawephotos by: Eric Laignel03.16.09 -
Compound Addition
A pair of environmentally attuned architects combined adjoining properties in a Los Angeles canyon to house their modernist menagerie.
written by: Sarah Amelarphotos by: Catherine Ledner05.13.09 -
Cooler Ranch
After searching in vain for an empty lot to build on, architect Brian White settled for a nondescript 1960s ranch that nobody else wanted—and proved that building from the ground up doesn’t always...
written by: Sam Grawephotos by: John Clark01.18.09 -
Country Bunker
On Austin’s outskirts, where urban, industrial, and rural collide, lawyer and science-fiction author Chris Brown’s bunker-style home redefines modern city living.
written by: Mitchell Alan Parkerphotos by: Dave Mead03.29.13 -
Courtyard House by Rowan Opat
On my recent trip to Melbourne, Australia, I did manage to get out of the city for one day. I zipped down to the Mornington Peninsula to visit a couple wineries, and also to see the...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Peter Bennetts10.30.09 -
Creative Commons
Craving not just a home but a proper piece of architecture, a handful of design- and business-savvy Dutch families banded together, hired an architect, and set about forming the community that...
written by: Jane Szitaphotos by: Dean Kaufman11.16.09 -
Designed In-House
Mill Valley, California, might not be a hotbed of modernism, but it was here, ten years ago, that Dwell came into the world alongside founder Lara Hedberg Deam’s first home—now...
written by: Sam Grawephotos by: Dustin Aksland09.07.10 -
Domestic Democracy
In a code-happy L.A. suburb, how do you break the mold without breaking the law? Architects Alice Fung and Michael Blatt steer clear of anarchy with a little democratic design.
written by: David A. Greenephotos by: Dave Lauridsen06.15.09 -
Echo Logical
Los Angeles is not all mini-malls and highways. As Eric Garcetti, president of the City Council, shows, it is eminently possible to live green in the City of Angels. By putting solar power and...
written by: Frances Andertonphotos by: Misha Gravenor02.26.09 -
Good Clean Fun
Far from pandering to the whine of youth, this urban play garden fosters thoughtful interaction in a protected setting within the bustle of San Francisco.
written by: Jordan Kushinsphotos by: Marion Brenner07.07.11 -
Green Acres
Design pared to the bone is a high-risk strategy, but as this Australian home illustrates, it can also produce a sublime environmental connection.
written by: Peter Hyattphotos by: Peter Hyatt01.19.09 -
Hay Is for Horses, Straw Is for Houses
In the Napa Valley, one sustainable residence elegantly demonstrates straw bale technology.
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: JD Peterson09.10.09 -
Kansas City, MO
Kansas City is a sprawling 318 square miles. With the help of creative developers and architects, the three square miles that make up downtown are finally growing up.
written by: Sam Grawephotos by: Daniel Hennessy01.18.09 -
Kingston Brio
Aaron Roberts and Thomas Bailey, the young architects behind room11, teamed up to design a house for Aaron's parents, fixing the structure into the topography of the site.
written by: Simon Sellarsphotos by: Andrew Rowat01.15.09 -
Knotty by Nature
In snowy Sweden, where pine planks and the democratic design incubator Ikea reign supreme, a local architect pays homage to his patrimony, making a small, slatty home feel like a rather big deal....
written by: Grant Gibsonphotos by: Pia Ulin04.03.10 -
LEEDing the Way
One day last April there was great excitement on Highland Avenue, a quiet, hilly street (on which this writer happens to live) of Craftsman bungalows and 1960s apartment buildings in the Ocean Park...
written by: Frances Andertonphotos by: Dave Lauridsen02.01.09
