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'Moving Meshes' at Domaine de Boisbuchet
Mesh and wireframe structures might typically be reserved for the architectural design realm, but Dutch designer Maria Blaisse aims to expand the rules of textiles and flexible materials with her...
written by: Abigail Doan09.06.12 -
10 Amazing Examples of Shipping Container Architecture
If you caught our recent round up of shipping container homes, you know there's no shortage of innovative adaptations to the boxy cargo pieces. We can't get enough of them, either, and here we...
written by: Diana Budds11.30.12 -
10 Design Tumblrs We Love
Spend blissful hours recharging your creative battery with these ten Tumblrs we've put together to make you feel inspired, keep you up-to-date, and occasionally say...WTF.
written by: Olivia Martin12.14.12 -
10 Smart Small Spaces
The ingenuity of architects and design-minded residents is often best showcased in designs for homes with less than ample square footage. These spatial savants found clever ways to circumvent ...
written by: Jordan Plaut08.10.12 -
10 Tiny Houses We Love
We've dedicated the pages in our November 2012 issue to living large in small spaces, whether they're 235, 900, or 2,000 square feet. But there's more! The Dwell archive features scores of small...
written by: Diana Budds10.05.12 -
131-Day House
Architect Jayna Cooper had never designed a house before, much less played general contractor, when she broke ground on her new home in the middle of Los Angeles in 2009. After a grueling four...
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Mikey Tnasuttimonkol07.11.12 -
20 Modern Home Facades
While we can all heed that age-old axiom, "Never judge a book by its cover," we're swooning over the façades of these homes. Whether your design curiosity is piqued by the sight of a cozy...
written by: Sara Ost11.28.12 -
7 Clever Loft Spaces for Small Places
Crunched for space, the residents of these homes—mostly under 1,000 square feet—have the same ideas: look upward and compartmentalize. Lofted sleeping areas, closets, and reading nooks...
written by: Diana Budds09.15.12 -
7 London Houses We Love
Friday marked the start of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England. In celebration of the city's finest works of residential design, we've collected seven homes—including one by...
written by: Diana Budds07.27.12 -
7 Tremendous Tree Houses
Symbolic of both blissful childhood and the threshold between humanity and nature, tree houses hold a unique position in the world of modern architecture and design. We take a look at some of the...
written by: Jordan Plaut07.12.12 -
A John Lautner-Designed Hotel
A major perk of reporting the story "John Lautner's Desert Rose" for our June 2012 issue? Actually spending a night at the Hotel Lautner in Desert Hot Springs, California, which has been...
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Jaime Gillin05.31.12 -
A Lakeside Prefab in New Jersey
A New Zealand expat and her son use their prefabricated lakeside New Jersey retreat as an outdoorsy counterpoint to city life.
written by: Kelsey Keithphotos by: Mark Mahaney12.20.12 -
A Little Bit Country
Thanks to Matthew Hufft, their envelope-pushing architect and longtime friend, Hannah and Paul Catlett have a new home in southwestern Missouri that’s a fresh, unconventional take on the...
written by: Georgina Gustinphotos by: Joe Pugliese10.08.12 -
A Modern Prefab Addition to a Mid-Century California Classic
A 1950s Joseph Esherick home in Berkeley, California, inspires an addition that pays homage to the past yet is poised to host the next generation.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Caren Alpert12.30.12 -
A New Beginning
One family’s effort to “smuggle a modern house into a historic district” in Washington, DC, results in a brightly transformed space made for family life.
written by: Amanda Dameronphotos by: Eli Meir Kaplan09.10.12 -
A Rare Glimpse of Google's Data Centers
Information giant Google has centers all over the world that drive everything you see on the web. These recently released photos show the poetry that goes into organizing the sheer amount of data...
written by: Skylar Bergl10.17.12 -
A Renovated Flat in Moshe Safdie's Habitat '67
A flat renovated by a pair of fashion insiders breathes new life into architect Moshe Safdie's iconic Habitat '67 building.
written by: Alex Bozikovicphotos by: Alexi Hobbs12.30.12 -
A Sustainably Built Home in Rural Ontario
For this rural Ontario home, building sustainably was less about high-tech gizmos than learning to truly love the land.
written by: Alex Bozikovicphotos by: Derek Shapton10.08.12 -
A World Apart
Inspired by her natural surroundings, a Dutch felt artist intuitively crafts a home on a northern Holland harbor.
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Hotze Eisma07.29.12 -
Above the Fray
How a Bay Area architect who toggles his time between the coasts found his home away from home in a modern Manhattan high-rise.
written by: Kevin Sintumuangphotos by: Brian Finke08.21.12 -
All in the Family
Young architects often design homes for their parents. But for Toronto's Julia Knezic, it was an especially intimate job: her mom Susan Farkas's new house is next to her own. When the property...
written by: Alex Bozikovicphotos by: Sean Galbraith08.06.12 -
All the Home's a Stage
In a Melbourne suburb, a family of four redefines “interior design” with a private house that doubles as a public art gallery.
written by: Rowan McKinnonphotos by: Dianna Snape06.17.12 -
American Pastoral
At their house and flower farm in Los Angeles’s Glassell Park, Laura Gabbert and Andrew Avery bring friends, family, and a fleet of urban gardeners together for the classic indoor-outdoor party.
written by: Alissa Walkerphotos by: Catherine Ledner07.25.12 -
An Eichler-Inspired Modular Home in California
With a sleek prototype in Emeryville, California, under its belt, Simpatico Homes sets out to redefine prefab's cost—and footprint.
written by: Joanne Furiophotos by: Jake Stangel12.22.12 -
An Innovative Modular Building System in Ecuador
Seeking a way to blend architecture into the natural environment, a pair of Ecuador-based designers invents a new modular building system.
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: João Canziani12.31.12
