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So you have a deadbeat tenant: Here’s how you get rid of ’em.

Successful restaurants offer the holy trinity of good food, good service, and good ambience. Design can influence all three, but botch the ambience, and you’ll be forever fighting a...

For decades home gardeners have turned to an arsenal of chemical pesticides, herbicides, and synthetic fertilizers to keep their lawns, ornamentals, and veggies looking perfect. Unfortunately, this...

Even high-design dressing rooms, rare as they are, rarely function or inspire as the shop floor can. That may be changing, though.

The Joneses went for a splashy starchitect to design their new home. Then things took a turn for the worse.

Waste extends far beyond what winds up in the landfill. The International Dark-Sky Association leads the charge against light pollution.

In theory, you can build a fine urban park atop an underground parking garage. Stroll through the gardens of Chicago’s Millennium Park, and you forget you’re walking above a cavern for...

Landscape design is a matter of personal taste, but there are some approaches that almost any designer would recommend against.

The challenge for airport designers is to consider the complex function of an airport and then cap it off with some truly striking architecture. Most airports get at least some of it right. Some...

A look back through the history of prefab reveals a few failures that proved to be great opportunities for learning and improvement.