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In bowling, "striking out" means throwing three strikes in the tenth and final frame of a game.

In the United States, it’s illegal to call yourself an architect unless you have been licensed by a state—a process requiring a...

The idea of building or renovating your home can be daunting.

The old joke “Enough about me, let’s talk about you.

The architectural profession is shrouded in mystery.

Alexander Girard has certainly been spreading the love lately.

A documentary screening at Dwell on Design zooms in for a close-up on 98-year-old architectural photographer Julius Shulman and...

In the last 15 years, many a postindustrial city has redefined itself as a design center.

Any cachet attached to the potential of space tourism was placed in dire straits when N’Sync heartthrob Lance Bass signed up to...

What is it about trains that gets kids going gaga? Undoubtedly it has much to do with their wheels of steel, whistles, and...

When design hotels first appeared in the ’80s, with their stylish bars, big-name designers, and excessive tariffs, many of us...

I’m tired of hearing about the golden age of flight, that era when air hostesses (never hosts) wore Pucci uniforms, Pan Am logos...

Integrating smart technology into home energy and heating/cooling systems is a no-brainer.

Don’t try these landscape design approaches at home.

Each of these residential landscaping projects serves as a model for executing traditional landscape design practices—well.

Garden design is only a fraction of the landscaping tradition. We take a look into (and upon) the field.

Several weeks ago I was a member of the jury for a design competition sponsored by Design Within Reach.

While visiting and writing about small homes for our June 2009 “Think Smaller” issue, it quickly became clear that when space is...

Even though Dwell's crew has been jaunting all over the country as of late, rest assured they are still down to stock the larder...

A transit-oriented mixed-use development in image-obsessed Hollywood? You bet your Botox.

Big-thinker Daniel H. Pink has quickly established himself as an authority on the rapidly-transforming concept of work, and along...

In my endless trawling for new projects that meld food and design, I came across the Yellow Treehouse Restaurant—an...

Two brothers from just south of Milwaukee are making waves in New York as the Editors’ Choice pick for New Design at ICFF.

Calling all designers, inventors, and people who are tired of wrestling with unwieldy ironing boards! Just nine days remain to...

Things are fairly quiet in the west coast design world this week, as all the activity is concentrated in New York for the annual...

Our friends at Inhabitat just released a great 5-minute video from their walking tour of the green goods at BKLYN Designs.

Within blocks of the infamous Cabrini-Green complex, the Schiff Residences have become a model for bringing dignity and green...

Our homes generally celebrate design you can see, but throw open the closet doors and behold a new frontier.

After buying a modest Cliff May home in Beverly Glen, the architect residents purchased the neighboring cottage by Case Study...

Living small is par for the course in New York City, but accommodating a family of four in under 700 square feet rarely looks...

As Jarmund/Vigsnæs’s growing crop of small, smart houses have garnered increasing attention, their equally prolific civic works...

By creatively manipulating the angles and levels of exterior surfaces on this modest Polish country house, architect Peter Kuczia...

In Oakland, California, two designers transformed a 100-year-old barn into a (very) cozy home of their own by redefining the...

Great Britain has never had a reputation for great food—it is, after all, the nation where a dish called mushy peas is...

While the Western world forgets its waste with a flush, 2.6 billion people don’t even have toilets.