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On a former brownfield site across the river from downtown Boston, a renovated turn-of-the-century lithography factory trades in...

We’re starting a new series on dwell.com this week called Three Buildings.

Starting as a dormant, unassumingly giant egg, Romanian designer Vlad Icobet's conceptual product hatches into an elegant,...

Designer Massimo Iosa Ghini takes a moment to reflect on the hazards of speed and the merits of Europe’s standard of living.

If you are in Los Angeles this weekend (or any time before September 5), be sure to pay a visit to Fifth Floor Gallery to take...

Diane Cheatham and Edward Baum team up to try to make the Dallas of their design dreams a reality.

Jens Risom is enjoying his place in the canon of midcentury furniture designers while also distinguishing himself as a great...

When we go out to eat, the environs are are often as much of a consideration as the food—if we just wanted to satisfy our hunger...

It might have seemed like an oxymoron to Frank Lloyd Wright, but it’s a reality in this Boston photographer’s flat, designed to...

The entrepreneurial pair at Design Glut has been building a great archive on their site of interviews they've conducted with...

When you live in an apartment, the surrounding city becomes an extension of your home. The nearby parks act as your backyard.

Last week I posted about three new books from William Stout Publishers, one of which is Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood...

The recent disappearance of vast numbers of worker bees from their colonies sounded an unexpectedly resonant ecological alarm.

In modern home design, going green is no longer the exception but the norm.

After having his apartment stripped bare by unknown perpetrators, furniture maker Simon Watts is getting back on his feet—and...

Or is one house better than two? For Santa Monica–based architect Jesse Bornstein and his family, both are true.

Today is the last day of July and you know what that means...If you haven't yet sent in your submission to the Reburbia...

On a recent weekend, whilst both sitting on a train and lolling by the river, I read the short, strange novel Flatland by Edwin...

When putting together a room, it's easy to lapse into the "Everything-must-be-a-showpiece" mentality, and though that can...

When graphic designers Jeanette and Mike Abbink left behind their loft in San Francisco—with collected ephemera, a voluminous...

Unobtrusively distinct from its neighbors, a weekend house in Mexico assimilates the colors of the surrounding landscape on...

As Volvo crash-test engineer Laura Thackray knows, dummies—even virtual ones—can teach us a thing or two about safety.

Which is harder? Creating a new classic or restoring an old one? Leo Marmol of Marmol Radziner discusses staying consistent with...

The beats you hear booming through the Oakland streets might be emanating from the cars of future rap stars—or from the People’s...

Designer John Picard isn’t afraid of getting his hands dirty in the kitchen, or washing the sand off his feet in the bathroom.

Israeli-born British designer and architect Ron Arad has made a name for himself pushing the boundaries of forms and materials,...

The second annual Renegade Craft Fair swooped into San Francisco's Fort Mason Festival Pavilion last weekend, delighting Bay Area...

Sometimes all the numbers don't add up, but at least they can look cool.

In our February 2009 issue we sat down with acclaimed Italian architect Renzo Piano, who designed the California Academy of...

While our editor-in-chief Sam Grawe and design director Kyle Blue lunch at the White House today with the honorees of the...

Los Angeles–based architecture firm Tag Front faces the future of downtown living with an apartment that melds the compactness of...

For Erik and Ivana Gonzalez, the design of their kitchen—and every other room in the house—was truly a family affair.

We in the US hear plenty about the AIA's awards of festivals, but not so much about our neighbors up north.

In this new feature, we present an architectural insider’s guide to a great design destination.