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In 2007, New York City's Office of Emergency Management launched an international housing design competition, What if NYC?,...

It's been said more than once since the recession began that a down economy breeds creativity, born from heightened...

Edge Studio's apartment building with its glass-and-steel facade is a glowing example of the urban renaissance that's gripping...

In Ørestad—Copenhagen’s tiny but buzzing new hub of urban development—a mountain rises from the flatlands.

The Mariscal residence in downtown San Diego is just one surprise in a city rarely associated with innovative urban structures.

If you haven't yet submitted your entries to the Reburbia competition, time is running out! This Friday, July 31, is the last day...

Welcome to Museum of Robots, where androids are the muses for Richard and Vicky Küng's collection of modern housewares and home...

It's mid-July in San Francisco and you know what that means: Time to break out your wool sweaters! While we watch the morning fog...

Best friends since middle school, Casey Patten and David Mazza have a passion for their up-and-coming slice of Washington, DC,...

There's nothing like a little design therapy to relieve the sting of summer's end and first-day-of-school butterflies.

In the highly contested 53 West 53rd Street site in Manhattan, Axis Mundi has revealed an alternatively 'diverse' design for the...

We here at the Dwell offices were all saddened to learn that architectural photographer Julius Shulman passed away last night at...

For over seventy years, through 7,000 photography sessions, and with 70,000 negatives, Julius Shulman captured the elusive spirit...

In Vienna, a dazzling penthouse by Delugan Meissl has boldly inserted itself between traditional rooftops of the city’s Wieden...

One of the joys of coming in to Dwell every morning is passing by William Stout Architectural Books, maybe the best design...

On Sunday, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA revealed their Serpentine Pavilion.

While camping up in Oregon over the fourth of July weekend, I realized when lying on my back in my tent that I wasn't really...

In May I led a walking tour of Washington DC's modern embassies.

This week's round-up is a varied mix, from radio shows and stylized manhole covers to photo essays and solar-powered bike parking...

Encouraging busy beavers to "meet people and make stuff," The Make Lounge in London is a contemporary craft school meets social...

The winner of the 2009 MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program has opened in the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center courtyard in Long...

How many times have you opened your refrigerator to scramble an egg for breakfast, and then realize that you have none left? With...

With the current housing crisis, the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, and rising energy costs, the future of suburbia looks bleak.

As cities with hills steeper than black diamond ski slopes go, San Francisco is exceptionally bike-friendly.

This week, TED released "The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames," a talk given by Eames Demetrios, the grandson of the famous...

A complex of farm buildings from a less than glorious period in Italy’s history is magically transformed.

A dazzling display of colored windows wraps the custom-furniture-filled Venice, California, home of architect Lorcan O’Herlihy.

With designs from 14 countries and five decades inside, it may be an understatement to note that in this suburban home, furniture...

Via one of my favorite websites, a project that puts personal behavior data into beautifully-designed dishware: Israeli designer...

For Parisian gallery director Didier Krzentowski, the art of collecting has become a career by design.

In the hot and humid South, time seems to stand still and the architecture is often no different.

In this tightly packed Northeast city where developers pounce first on any available lot, two young architects found a rare...

The Modern Family Zone on the Dwell on Design exhibition floor was transformed into a lively playground this past weekend.

Las Vegas–based architect Alberto Frias' design, an LED-illuminated perceptual pod called Transport, drew a lot of attention on...