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

A century ago giant airships—–blimps and zeppelins and such—–were considered the future of air transport, but with their safety...

The challenge for airport designers is to consider the complex function of an airport and then cap it off with some truly...

Effective airport designs are often underappreciated, as it is easy to take them for granted when things go smoothly.

As anyone who has been to Peru, or Bali, or Timbuktu can tell you, travel is not merely the experience of going somewhere.

When it comes to real estate, the trailer park gets a bad rap.

Tiptoeing into the Los Angeles showroom of TOUCH, it's difficult not to obey the storefront's signage.

Sustainability doesn’t have to mean monasticism and darkness—with this zone-by-zone guide to the domestic world you know best,...

Artist Chris Jordan has become something of a cult figure for the green set, with his growing portfolio of mind-bending...

Mark Johnson started daydreaming last year about how residential architecture in his native Houston would be improved if...

I alluded to it in an earlier post on my trip to Switzerland, but one of the highlights of the whole affair was an impromptu stop...

Producing power by harnessing kinetic energy from human and animal movement is a great idea but one with few good results.

Now that we've been doing these weekly round-ups for a while, it's fun to watch the links pour in from the Dwell editors and...

Dwell's June 2009 issue just landed on our desks and it looks great! We're excited for it to hit your mailboxes and newsstands in...

South Asia is a region known for producing beautiful handmade rugs which are sold all over the world.

I alluded to it in an earlier post, but one of the highlights of my first day in Zurich was a tour through the exhibit Good...

Having children often inspires and motivates people to make changes in their lives or execute projects that have long been...

Listening to your favorite music—–from that “Blame It on the Rain” cassingle to an 8-track of Tusk—–used to be a pretty...

Tonight I’ll be hosting the next Dwell Conversation, Designing Diplomacy, a panel discussion on the intersection of design and...

Texas is known for propagating a "bigger is better" attitude.

Donerik Dela Cruz and Aaron Pou describe their business as a “design start-up in challenging times,” but since launching...

Waking up, despite the early hour, was a joy in sunny Lausanne.

Bitter black brew got you down? Lackluster crema floating in your cup? With the assistance of an espresso expert, Dwell evaluates...

When an urban expat couple decided to build the suburban house they wanted rather than the one their neighbors expected, they...

In architecturally conservative San Francisco, this house built on a 20-foot-wide lot proves that modern design can fit—literally...

New Yorkers often work, eat, sleep, and entertain in a single room.

Public Architecture forges ahead into uncharted territory, and creates a model for fitting pro bono work into the daily practice...

Hybridization is hit or miss (i.e., the jackalope).

I was recently in Palm Springs, California, to help judge doghouse designs for BARKitecture CHIQue 2009, a pet-sized architecture...

In an unlikely mountaintop locale, Anderson Anderson Architecture crafted a home out of a complex composition of off-the-shelf...

Intelligent, appealing, and affordable, Charlie Lazor’s user-friendly FlatPak just might be the project that revolutionizes the...

When building a second home, most people don’t consider traveling farther than upstate.

Iranian architect Nader Kahlili fashions affordable, easily assembled housing out of sandbags and concrete for a surprsingly...

Tucked into the side of a scenic San Francisco hill, one of the city’s more diminutive houses battles everything from dry rot to...

In 2004, The Houses at Sagaponac—a controversial development on eastern Long Island—celebrated its first completed house.

Of the many brilliant designers featured in Gary Hustwit's product design documentary, Objectified (which Dwell was privileged to...