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Luxury real estate listings are compelling, even if you will never, ever be able to afford what’s on offer.

"Hedonistic Sustainability," scenes from New York Fashion Week, an homage to Gene Kelly, Magda Biernat's images of a...

The good folks at Epic Software are building a video production studio out of old shipping containers just outside of Houston,...

The Miner and a Major is an experiment in communal living and fantastical form.

In the latest installment of Three Buildings, a semi-regular series where I ask people from all over the creative spectrum to...

In this exclusive series for Dwell.com, Linda Taalman of Taalman Koch Architecture tracks the hands-on renovation of her and ...

We were already big fans of Barcelona–based designer Nani Marquina, but now that we hear she helped reopen a shuttered school for...

Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, New York, hearkens from the days of robber barons and captains of industry.

Holly Hotchner knows New York.

Every Friday Dwell's editors, designers, and interns share a handful of their favorite blogs, videos, photographs, and stories...

There is no shortage of incredible kitchen systems to ogle—and if you're lucky, incorporate into your home.

How do you squeeze maximum functionality out of minimal space? Rosa and Robert Garneau make it happen with multipurpose...

Henrybuilt and Viola Park rank high on our list of great, modern kitchen systems (a list that includes the likes of Snaidero,...

When Dwell proposed that I undertake a design writing variant of Supermarket Sweep—visiting five projects in five boroughs in two...

The 84-block trip south to Times Square is surprisingly speedy.

Two hours later, revivified by a pair of conga players’ exuberant performance on the 2 train, I hustle out at the corner of Third...

Like many white people of a certain age, I first visited Harlem by mistake.

While my appreciation of New York’s 24-7 public transit system remains immeasurable, I am pleased, as day two begins, to catch a...

Twenty-nine years after Robert Moses’s death, the mixed legacy of New York’s über–urban planner remains inescapable.

Happy Valentine's Day to all you Dwell readers.

For those spots where a table will take up too much space and piling your on the floor isn't exactly appealing, try hanging a...

This week, an underwater museum, antigrams, and a solo cross-Atlantic kayak voyage are just a few of the most interesting things...

Adrian Jones lived in his top-floor loft in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood for nine years before renovating.

I'll be at Swissnex San Francsicso today, February 10th, to lead a panel discussion of Swiss design to help kick off an...

Don’t be fooled by his mellow, self-effacing demeanor: Architect Thomas Phifer is a master of his craft, designing daylit,...

When Svetlin Krastev and Dessi Nikolova had their second child, they saw two options: Go broke buying a bigger apartment, or...

Have a look at some on the most interestiing things we here at Dwell saw this week.

I had the good fortune to meet Anne Midgette, a classical music critic for the Washington Post, a while back at the Post offices.

Few feelings equal the rush of shopping in the center of the universe with cold hard cash—or credit—burning a hole in the pocket.

For most homeowners, the goal of renovating is to transform an existing space into an idealized domicile.

In this last Friday Finds for the month of January, we bring you a handful of the photographs, films, and other aspects of visual...

Last December, I came across this fascinating article in the Architect's Newspaper that discussed the possibilities digital...

Put down your Kindles, New Yorkers, and head straight to MoMA to buy some books.