As New Orleans struggles to get back on its feet, one architect learns from the past while building for the future.

In keeping with today's impromptu New Orleans theme, Luke Weldon Perry's blog, The Incremental House, is featuring a...

When the Frys lost their home to the Fourmile Canyon Fire, they looked up—way up. Rebuilding at 7,3000 feet high, the family...

Adding less than $100,000 of improvements to an off-the-shelf prefab model resulted in a clean-cut structure at the eastern base...

With a wild approach, award-winning designer Margie Ruddick pushes the boundaries of landscaping.

The New Orleans–based eyewear brand KREWE—a chic favorite with Hollywood celebs—transforms a worn warehouse in the Lower Garden...

Named the Eliza Jane after a pioneering publisher, this new boutique hotel just two blocks west of the French Quarter is full of...

Built in 1957, an artful hideaway on an industrial stretch of Tulane Avenue in New Orleans has been remade into a modern-day...

Located within a historic district, the skinny, modern box aims to fit in even though it stands out.

An affordable two-unit home provides a beautiful solution to the city’s housing shortage.

Architect Wayne Troyer of studioWTA has dedicated some two decades to sprucing up this midcentury ranch house in the Lower Garden...

The Louisiana native explains how cities can heal the wounds of racist development—without accelerating gentrification.

A classic Big Easy house with a fanciful facade gets a $427K renovation that balances authenticity and imagination.

Inside a historic Victorian, ROAR Architects designs a flat for each sibling that connect to shared spaces.

In Seattle, where others saw only a severe slope and lack of municipal hookups, one couple spotted their ticket to their dream...

A Brooklyn architect shows what a little elbow grease, a healthy dose of naïveté, and a decade can accomplish.

Uni, an international group of designers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is riding out a self-professed renovation high that never...

This new retreat cantilevers over the Canadian forest for river views.

With sensitivity to local building typologies, fresh construction finds a place in Amsterdam.

The residents of Midland, Michigan, are leading the charge to document their community’s unique architectural history.

Behind the Dwell Magazine Redesign

Fifteen minutes from downtown Seattle, architects Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo transformed the neighborhood dump—a lot that had...

We asked five households that recently switched Los Angeles neighborhoods what they had in mind when picking a new place to live.

Architecture is the latest field to feel the double-edged sword of computerization.

Architect Jiri Lev’s home is a prototype for forward-looking architecture that could make a positive societal impact in Australia.

I recently received an email from filmmaker Evan Mather, alerting me to his most recent—and urgent—project, which I thought I'd...

Polly Watts’ recs for the best taprooms and bars for your next trip to NOLA.

An architecture family makes magic with everyday objects and a lot of creativity.

Susan Orlean and her husband John Gillespie revive a classic Schindler with verdant views of the San Fernando Valley.

Drawing from the city’s heritage of midcentury modernism, the Dwell Prefab Palm Springs by Turkel Design embodies California’s...

A major market for our furniture, and the headquarters of some of our most important designers, Manhattan has long been Herman...

We’re excited to reveal a new way to shop products on Dwell, and it all starts with the new “Products” tab.

It was no exodus, of course, but when Kathleen Triem quit her job at a Manhattan design firm in July 1996, her associates were...

When Cecilia Tham and Yoel Karaso of Habitan Architects bought their first-floor apartment in an 1894 block of the Fort Pienc...

Built in 1894, this building has served as a schoolhouse, an office, and an event space.

More than a decade after it was first announced, Frank Gehry's sculptural Guggenheim Museum looks set to begin construction in...