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Arborsculpturist Richard Reames has spent the past 16 years making more than 100 sculptures, chairs, pieces of furniture, tool...

Doing something unique can increase a home’s resale value.

Every night I said, “Trust me, sweetheart, this is going to be amazing, beautiful, fantastic

We sunbathe, picnic, and play sports on them. Our bare feet seem inexorably drawn to them.

Curatorial manager Jennifer Strate O’Neal calls Creative Growth Art Center the “homestead” of a now-flourishing creative...

Thanks to a group of young Brooklyn architects, an immigrant neighborhood untouched by gentrification gets low-income housing...

Zoë Melo has dedicated herself to design work that transcends trendy or facile definitions of sustainable or socially responsible...

As the LA Times attempts a controversial mapping of LA neighborhoods, which appears to be creating more divisions in the city...

Driving through the leafy country lanes on the outer edges of London’s commuter belt, it’s hard to imagine the city is just an...

A69 Architects were called upon to match concrete with concrete for this family home in Prague.

Resembling in form and function ancestors such as Jean Prouvé’s prefab Tropical House, Architect Fred Friedmeyer’s prefab...

In the small village of Spannum, in the Dutch province of Friesland, Claudy Jongstra heads a felt-design studio whose modesty in...

The Watershed is an off-the-grid writer’s retreat that architect Erin Moore designed for her mother, nature writer Kathleen Dean...

Los Angeles is not all mini-malls and highways.

After three rainless weeks a welcome tropical shower blew into San Juan, Puerto Rico, one afternoon last May, awakening Casa...

In October, the light in Norway is cold and diffused by rain.

The U.S. capital is not all political wonks and Masonic conspiracies: It’s also a highly walkable city, its diagonal avenues wide...

Taking cues from the flora, fauna, and rocky cliffs of Big Sur, California, Mickey Muennig's brand of organic architecture...

"We thought design was this incredible discovery as a field, and yet no one was making it interesting.

Behind an unassuming 19th-century facade in Singapore's Joo Chiat neighborhood, Ching Ian and Yang Yeo's renovation of a typical...

On the edge of a tiny island accessible only by boat, this buoyant summer home lives the life aquatic.

A maker of unfussy, elegant design objects, Inga Sempé delights in things both great and small—even if she doesn’t own any.

In Lima,Peru–a visually striking but geologically shaky locale–designer Jodi Puig points out ways in which the city's culturally...

Gallery owner Hilario Galguera escorts us through Mexico City, walking the line of life and death, problem and promise.

When Architect Qingyun Ma became dean of architecture at the University of Southern California in January 2007, he came to the...

From the traditional with a twist to completely conceptual, these timely wall clocks will tell the hour, impress the guests, and...

The Chilean capital may be a tamer city than its South American brethren, but there’s change afoot where colonial legacy meets...

David Baker’s carefully crafted rehabilitation kept the bones of the building intact, while letting in light and air and creating...

Most deserts are dry and dusty expanses of blue skies, bleached soil, and rulerflat horizons.

Skip Sedona and forget the Grand Canyon? Architect Will Bruder leads us on a journey through slow food and rapid development in...

Any way you slice it, toast makes the most of any loaf. But which of these worthy appliances will make toast of the competition?

Brian Keaney of TonfiskDesign may be Irish, but his Finnish is flawless; he guides us through icecold Helsinki’s hot spots.

Cathy Leff takes to the road (and sidewalk) to lead us on an intrepid bicycle tour of Miami’s architectural and cultural wonders.

Once a blue-collar industrial port, Malmö, Sweden, now aims to be a premier design destination. It’s on its way.

Vancouver, British Columbia, offers a dramatic natural setting, but as Omer Arbel shows us, there’s more to the city of glass...

They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but once you leave, you may have trouble banishing Sin City from your mind.