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Though tricked out with high-tech touches, this house’s greenest feature is decidedly low tech: the family’s intention to make it their lifelong home. |
Designed for her parents and generations to come, Amanda Yates's seaside New Zealand house is "somewhere between architecture and landscape" but firmly rooted in family life. |
In her Berlin studio, rogue Dutch designer Hella Jongerius creates colorful, covetable objects that meld the handmade and the mass-produced in surprising new ways. |
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Quintessential California architect John Lautner would have been 100 this July. Set high above Palm Springs, his beyond-groovy Elrod House is nothing short of concrete poetry. |
With ingenuity and plenty of elbow grease, architect John Tong turned an old Toronto dairy into the ultimate family clubhouse. |
In a London house that’s flooded with light, a spiral staircase provides a prismatic path from floor to floor. |
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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. |
Lowering the shutters on this small writer’s retreat completely exposes the interior to the site’s impressive island views. |
North Carolina high schoolers take on a creating a sustainable small-scale housing solution—for hens. |
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An experimental shop in Oaxaca, Mexico, is resuscitating the region’s ancient crafts traditions and bringing indigenous artisans’ designs into the 21st century. |
Newly published monograph The Design
Work of Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby
offers the inside account behind the British
duo’s expansive portfolio. |
Eating has always been a sociable event, from primitive campfire cooking to reclining on lectuli at lavish Greek and Roman banquets. |
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The open spaces and transparency of modern architecture turn out to be extremely useful when there’s a house full of relatives. |
All it takes to play is a healthy imagination,
but a modern playhouse adds to the fun. |
Japanese designer Mikiko Endo lets her wild imagination go to work—–so we can play. |
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Chipotle’s recent approach to restaurant design aims to transform the traditionally tasteless experience of eating fast food into something more refined. |
Classic or contemporary, these titles are guaranteed to appeal to burgeoning bookworms of the modernist sort. |
The Sunshine State once yielded a bumper crop of modernist homes that—as this remodel proves—are still worth savoring. |
