For this rural Ontario home, building sustainably was less about high-tech gizmos than learning to truly love the land.

Stylish, spacious, and self-sustaining, the Hill Country House ticks all the right boxes for progressive modern living.

A modernist cabin in British Columbian ski country is the perfect retreat for a family of outdoor adventurers.

Decades after they met as teenagers on a Montauk beach, Manhattanites Victoria and Greg Pryor returned to Long Island to build a...

Seeking simplicity and open space, a Boulder-area couple settled on a wooded hilltop with views of the mountains and the city.

From a shipping container dwelling to architect Steven Holl’s forest retreat, these residences embody the ideal that what’s best...

From a carbon-negative cabin to a prefab farmhouse, these resourceful designs captivated readers this year.

To create their rural Connecticut getaway, Lisa Gray and Alan Organschi layered their modern design sensibility atop an early...

"Personally, I’d rather be living outside,” says architect David Hertz.

Perkins & Will designs a mountaintop Passive House that takes energy efficiency to the next level.

Studio eM Design’s rammed-earth home in Corrales, New Mexico, updates the regional adobe archetype into a hallmark of sustainable...

Den’s new easy-to-assemble, flat-packed cabin is disrupting the prefab scene.

This all-white LEED Gold home is undoubtedly modern, but takes cues from the historic precedent of the longhouse to bring the...

From Kyoto, Japan, to Austin, Texas, these dwellings take “bringing the outside in” to the next level.

The energy-efficient Silicon Valley home that architect Dan Spiegel designs for his parents responds to their lifestyles, the...

Architect Barry Alan Yoakum draws on decades of experience to build what, by one measure, is the first zero-energy, zero-carbon...

Local architects from McKinney York explain their schemes for two sustainable models designed to give the formerly homeless a...

TRIAS Studio follows a “less but better” mindset for a couple seeking to downsize to a modest and eco-friendly home.

See if you check off all the boxes when it comes to creating an eco-friendly household.

Conceived as an extension of the Arizona landscape, this eco-friendly, modern house approaches near net-zero energy consumption.

With careful planning and wise material choices, you can design an eco-friendly home that's not only gentler on the planet, but...

Huge windows and energy-efficient elements make this Oregon residence a nature lover’s dream.

Nestled into the mountainous terrain of Shefford, Québec, this simply constructed residence is elegant and strong in expression.