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A couple’s dinner out at their neighborhood bistro provides just the right impetus for their restaurant-inspired kitchen...

School's back in session and university galleries are filling up again with works worth studying.

As a product of our financial climate, cities all over the world have been experiencing a surge in one of the most unattractive...

In southwest Poland, architect Robert Konieczny, of KWK Promes, raises the roof—with sod intact—on Jacek Perkowski’s modernist...

For men of the cloth, architecture has always been one earthly delight they’ve been encouraged to indulge.

San Francisco's Mission District is known for its vibrant and often contrasting cultures—Mexican paleta wagons share the sidewalk...

Among the kitschy, gnome-loving chalets of Holland’s community gardens, a highly adaptable Garden House poses a solution to the...

In the Napa Valley, one sustainable residence elegantly demonstrates straw bale technology.

I first met Cathy Leff, director of the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, three years ago when she gave me a splendid...

Shelving often acts as a boring backdrop to the various vases, books, and knickknacks on display.

I'll confess it now: I still buy and use all those household cleaning beasties that I know I shouldn't like Windex, Formula 409...

Earlier this year we wrote about Open Architecture Network's challenge to create a better classroom design that can accommodate...

Our weekly round-up is short and sweet today—check out the links below to see what caught our editors' fancy as they meandered...

If you aspire to have a little kitchen garden for herbs and baby greens, these Green Pockets would be an elegant place to start.

The Urban Housing Handbook from Wiley Publications, a new tome from Paris-based architects Caroline Stahl and Eric Firley, is a...

George Smart is speaking out for the modern houses he loves.

Simon Alderson and Tony Cunninham of London–based high designer purveyors twentytwentyone talk kitsch versus collectible and the...

In downtown Los Angeles, nonprofit worker turned design-savvy entrepreneur Willard Ford turned the historic Kim Sing Theatre into...

You may not have realized it at the time, but if you played with LEGOs a lot as a kid you were giving yourself good training for...

Portland has long been a cultural outpost in New England, a hotspot for artists and longshoreman alike who crave the...

This modern log cabin from architecture students at Auburn University was designed to be completed for $20,000—an admirable...

For the next installment of Three Buildings I spoke with Acting Director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Caroline...

Shipping containers are ubiquitous in Houston, though unlike the four that make up this new home, they’re usually filled with...

With nearly a half century of architectural experience, Peter Cohen designed this ingenious spine-and-module home for him and his...

Born as a horse stable, the Brick Weave House in Chicago is all about transportation and transparency.

This summer, the Master of Architecture Program at Massachusetts College of Art and Design ran the first hands-on project in...

At Dwell, we're often living in several months at once: Our October 2009 issue hits newsstands next week but we're already busy...

Graham Pullin is an interaction designer who teaches at the University of Dundee in Scotland.

This week at Dwell as the chilly summer gives way to the warmest, sunniest months in San Francisco's calendar, the troops have...

The design world, like Tippi Hedren, pecked on all sides, has fallen prey to the birds.

The renovation of Katie and John Eller's Park Street Residence in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco began with a...

Every year Electrolux Design Lab runs a student competition for innovative household appliances, and every year the challenge...

The Danish architecture and design firm Lund & Paarmann have some striking new seating debuting in just a few days at CODE09, an...

In Japan, “old” is a relative term.

Dwell and Zwello have teamed up to gift a George Nelson–designed Ball Clock to one lucky person out there—sign up for one of our...

Back in early 2008, we wrote about a new suburban development by Swedish architecture firm Smedshammar + Holmberg, which was...