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Facing tight building codes and an even tighter space, Karen White and David MacNaughtan needed an architect who could turn...

Cities are a favorite subject for photographers, filled as they are with visual stimuli and primed for artistic criticism.

Dwell's intrepid editor and man about town, Aaron Britt, reports on the sights and scene this week at Design Miami in Miami...

It is nearly impossible to talk about materials today without invoking a full-fledged powwow about life cycle analysis, carbon...

In one of Italy's oldest glass-blowing regions, Murano, the lighting company FDV Collection (a Leucos USA brand) has partnered...

Whereas last weekend was one of openings, this weekend is one for catching shows before they close.

Though I've become quite fond of them, I don't quite know what to make of Jonathan Adler's pair of tabletop cetaceans.

Exciting news in the design world: Danish powerhouse designer firms Kilo Design (headed by Lars Holme Larsen), BIG (led by Bjarke...

"This isn’t a question of cost: It’s a question of design. Design is how you solve the climate-change problem."

This fall, Inhabitat ran a series of interviews with leaders in sustainable design and urban planning.

You’ve known you were destined to dwell in outer space ever since you first saw The Jetsons.

After much discussion around the Dwell headquarters, it's finally time to announce the winner of the Parkitecture Design...

The latest in our Three Buildings series is an architect we've admired for some time: Barbara Bestor.

I just got a wonderful new book in the mail today concerning famous archtiects and their personal collections of books.

I've had my eye on the handsome little notebooks from Field Notes--a collaboration between Portland, Oregon's Draplin Design...

Artist Tobias Putrih gave a gallery talk at the List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts last week, shedding light on...

This week we're highlighting a slew of show openings around the world and in the United States focusing on big-name designers and...

Over the years the blogosphere has seen a number of stories about generating power from the vibration of people's feet on a train...

Somehow stairs have become the object of "design porn" of late, and while it seems as likely that lamps or sofas or kitchen...

Living in a temperate climate, and deciding between a dark roof and a white roof? Trying to calculate if your summertime benefit...

Luxury, a term that once conjured images from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, is now just as often used to aggrandize personal...

Toronto, Ontario, is one metropolis that never ceases to amaze me with its never-ceasing construction.

Craving not just a home but a proper piece of architecture, a handful of design-savvy Dutch families banded together, hired an...

San Francisco–based design team Mike and Maaike wave goodbye to the driver's seat with their concept car, the ATNMBL (the...

A group of Columbia University students have a good time reinventing the playground as a place to harness all that youthful...

Just a collection of Internet fun, submitted for your viewing pleasure by your friendly Dwell staffers. Happy Friday!

While I was studying abroad last spring in Copenhagen, every morning on my way to school I passed through the busiest train hub,...

Considered neither modern nor contemporary dance, but more circus or rodeo with a dash of extreme sports and Hollywood-esque...

As artist Christopher Griffin and aesthetician Oresta Korbutiak prepared to renovate their live-work space in Ottawa, the couple...

While reporting one of our feature stories in the September issue, I became pals with the owners and residents at Taylor Gourmet,...

As digital fabrication meets high design, we find more and more examples of amazing furniture and household products (and even...

Like a little chapel on the prairie, architect Jean-Baptiste Barache’s simply elegant retreat in the tiny Normandy town of...

I've got a soft spot for really nice bags--totes, brief cases, messenger bags--and the M/S Canvas line from Danish designers...

In Holland, being green is not a choice, it's a governmentally enforced obligation.

UK artist Antony Hall refers to himself as an amateur scientist.