Feb. 2008
Hot Ideas for Hue; Tip Your Eco-hat to Solar Power!; Our Top 6 Picks; Destination Copenhagen
Hot Ideas for Hue; Tip Your Eco-hat to Solar Power!; Our Top 6 Picks; Destination Copenhagen
Features
Bower Play
The Tree of Ghent
Blue in the Facade
Rainbow Collection
Room with a Hue
Bower Play
Forget plumage. The color-splashed beak-made homes of the architecturally inspired male bowerbird pick up where feathers leave off. Story by Geoff Manaugh
The Tree of Ghent
For architect Dieter Van Everbroeck, nature comes first: He kept his own home simple in homage to a centuries-old tree. Story by Jane Szita / Photos by Hertha Hurnaus
Blue in the Facade
On the Quebec island of Havre-AuxMaisons, a restored schoolhouse becomes a modern retreat, retaining its history with bright colors that befit the region's palette. Story by Aaron Britt / Photos by Matthew Monteith
Rainbow Collection
We give the architectural color wheel a big spin and land on five residences that Roy G. Biv would be proud to call home. Jackpot!
Room with a Hue
Interior designer Suzette Sherman helps her chromatically challenged client see that a color-blind world needn't necessarily be a colorless one. Story by Deborah Bishop / Photos by Aya Brackett
Departments
My House
Off the Grid
Conversation
Archive
Detour
In the Modern World
We go stargazing, and discover a galaxy of architecture and design that includes the Centre Pompidou in Paris, designer Daniel Eatock, and materials man Blaine Brownell.
My House
With not a penny to spare- and the help of a biohazard team- Kim and Lucky Diaz transformed a Los Angeles hovel into a comfortable (and clean) modern home. Story by Amara Holstein / Photos by Joao Canziani
Off the Grid
Richard Rogers's EcoHat is a showstopper of a roof topper that can put any building's green profile head and shoulders above the rest. Story by Iain Aitch
Dwell Reports
Follow us through the looking glass with designer Sally Kuchar as we reflect on the frabjous-and mimsy-mirrors available in the jabberwocky world of design. Story by Amber Bravo / Photos by Peter Belanger
Conversation
England's Will Alsop, architect provocateur, talks to Dwell about his far-out designs—including the pink, purple, turquoise, and pastel spaces he's famous for. Story by Aaron Britt
Archive
Alexander Girard's brilliant hues, vibrant patterns, and love of traditional handicraft brought a new dimension to modernism's monochromatic spectrum. Story by Sam Grawe
Wrong Woods
Step inside the comic-book world of Richard Woods and Sebastian Wrong and witness the right way their Wrong Woods line of graphic furniture is made.
Detour
According to Solveig Nielsen of the Danish Architecture Center, there's nothing rotten in perennially fresh Copenhagen. Story by Marc Kristal / Photos by Thomas Ibsen
Sourcing
A source is a souce—of course, of course—that is, of course, unless the source is on Dwell's famous Sourcing page!
Theme Attic
Ryu Itadani explores this issue's color theme with Fauvist florals.
