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After taking on San Francisco City Hall, architect Jane Martin helped spawn a movement that has rendered the city’s sidewalks...

Buffalo, New York, regularly ranks among the top poorest cities in the United States.

With Dwell on Design only one week away, today's Week in Review features editors' picks of programming they're looking forward to...

Getting a thank you card in the mail, especially after having hosted a party or given a present, is a rarity today.

If necessity is the mother of invention, forethought was the provoker of a recent exhibition at the National Art Museum of China.

From the concept behind a stellar restaurant experience to the architecture of a well-plated dish, design touches the culinary...

Metalworker, builder and gallerist Christopher Puzio will be speaking at Dwell on Design this year on the My House panel I'm...

Phase II of Dwell's Innovate it! design competition has ended.

Among other great sessions at Dwell on Design, we're looking forward to a conversation with designer extraordinaire, Yves Behar.

Argentinean materials, a roiling economy, and a pinch of personal tumult served as the recipe for furniture designer Alejandro...

Traditions collide in Los Angeles when architect Jeremy Levine hotwires SoCal Spanish with international haute-moderne.

To keep the shade structure from taking flight during high winds, engineers had to make sure the supporting foundation was strong...

The rusted red corrugated-steel canopy that covers Jim Austin’s home at Rimrock Ranch is visually striking in its desert...

North Haven, a rocky island in Maine’s Penobscot Bay, is quintessentially New England.

Architect Lloyd Russell’s design for this desert getaway passively mitigates the elements with a utilitarian solution, turning a...

With an extended family apt to drop by at a moment’s notice, lifelong modernist Hannah Ferguson has a new home that’s all about...

It may be hard to believe, but Buffalo, New York, was once a pinnacle of high-tech innovation, even dubbed the City of Light for...

One of the oldest cities in the United States and home to the country’s first International Style skyscraper, Philadelphia is,...

The thought of stripping down for a communal skinny dip in a salty strait might make Americans a bit squeamish, but in Denmark,...

Want to see your work in print—or pixels? It's all in the pitch.

In the 1940s, the Mutual Housing Association created California’s only successful postwar cooperative community.

A couple of months ago when I judged a furniture competition sponsored by Design Within Reach, I was lured by a chair design from...

For homemade ice cream! Whether you favor Kumquat-Poppy Seed or plain Vanilla, a home ice-cream maker lets you effortlessly craft...

I met graphic designer Mick Hodgson of Santa Monica design office Ph.D at a party in San Francisco some months back.

For their family home in Mount Washington, Alice Fung and Michael Blatt steer clear of anarchy with a little democratic design.

Leaving the bustle of Washington, D.C., architect Joe Day and his wife return to California and discover that life in a...

The host of the public radio show Good Food, founder of Slow Food in Los Angeles, and owner of the heavenly L.A. institution...

San Francisco is a hotbed for design, spanning the disciplines of art, architecture, graphic design, illustration, and more.

What sort of house might a man with the title “recycling coordinator” live in?

The Smithsonian's Kogod Courtyard, built in 2007 as a modern complement to the nineteenth-century museum's Greek Revival–style...

With Dwell on Design just two weeks away, I've been keeping busy keeping in touch with panelists.

I like my pendant lamps grouped together or in a bundle, which is why I'm excited about the recent reissue of a trio of George...

Hey Dwell readers: Remember Coolhaus? They're the new architect-owned ice cream truck that's been driving around LA from sweet...

The Spain-USA Foundation is organizing cultural events in Washington, DC all summer.

Amidst much anticipated celebration, the High Line on the west side of Manhattan has finally opened.

Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture of Portland, Oregon, has become the go-to man for museum design these days.