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For years, pro skateboarder Rob Dyrdek ranted about wanting to build a “skate plaza”: a landscaped, multiuse urban area that...

Students are redesigning their environment under the guidance of Publicolor, a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 by...

According to Solveig Nielsen of the Danish Architecture Center, there's nothing rotten in perennially fresh Copenhagen.

Gallerist Martin Kudlek shows us that there’s more to Cologne than its cathedral.

"I'm used to spending time on boats," says New York based architect and interior designer Page Goolrick, who has been sailing...

Architect and designer Andrés Jaque takes us on a tour of pre-modern Madrid, highlighting the spaces where progressive design is...

Critics call Paris a "living museum." If so, designer Erwan Bouroullec curates a must-see list from a compelling collection.

It’s been called Byzantium, Constantinople, Stamboul, and Tsarigrad, but as designer Efe Buluc shows us, there’s only one...

If your only experience touring Chicago is from watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off, architect Brad Lynch has some insider tips for...

Gundrún Lilja Gunnlaugsdóttir of Studio Bility takes us on a guided tour of the city by the smoky bay: Reykjavík, Iceland.

Nina Tolstrup, the Danish furniture and product designer, who works under the name Studiomama, has been carving herself an...

Dispassionate about his hometown’s de rigueur "City of Design" designation, Gilles Saucier shows us his image of the city.

In honor of Modernica's 20th anniversary, the company is releasing a new iteration on the classic mid-century fiberglass shell...

Architecture professor Laura Terry and her students spent a summer designing and creating new facilities for young campers with...

Zoe Ryan has written art and design articles and books, helped curate shows at the MoMA and the Victoria and Albert Museum, and,...

Tired of carting supplies back and forth from Ukiah to the commune where he lived in Northern California, John Schaeffer decided...

Cooking often requires a design sensibility, skillfully balancing various weights, textures, and colors to determine the...

It’s the likes of which New York hasn't seen in more than 70 years: Not a stock market crash, but a floating public pool.

Greening Los Angeles has long been Andy Lipkis’s dream. Greening his nonprofit’s Hollywood Hills campus is now a reality.

The tiny staff at the San Francisco affiliate of Rebuilding Together coordinates and works on the rehabilitation of more than 20...

Living with kids and living in style can often feel like a catch-22.

An elegant new pool house keeps competitive swimmer Sydne Didier in top form, and out of the Connecticut River.

In this installment of My Favorite Thing, Dwell contributing editor David Greene tells us about the Heywood-Wakefield birch...

As a young city built on the ruins of a Spanish mission, Los Angeles has never had much of an architectural "cathedral culture."...

Archinect has a new feature up on the renovation of a 1950s Paris print shop into a 2,000-square-foot workshop and studio for...

Spy Vibe is a new fansite dedicated to the costume and set design of spy and space movies and TV from the 1960s, full of...

The term Tesseract was coined in the 19th century by science fiction writer Charles Howard Hinton to describe the 4-dimensional,...

Saul Griffith knows how to deliver grim planetary outlooks with irreverent humor.

On February 24, online retailer Amazon.com begins shipping its Kindle 2, the newest version of Amazon's electronic book reader.

Ever ask yourself, "Is that Arial or Helvetica?" (Or for type snobs, "Is that Helvetica or Helvetica Neue?") Then WhatTheFont may...

One day at Compostmodern equals about a week in standard time, and much more if you add up the many hours' worth of Web-surfing...

With so many green prefab projects out there, designers have to continually up their game to hit the highest standards of...

In this installment of My Favorite Thing, editor Aaron Britt shares a gift given to him by some students, and contemplates its...

Last week I attended a sustainability symposium focused on furthering the dialog about living "green." It's a ubiquitous term...

This coming Saturday, February 21, the second Compostmodern conference will take place at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.

The celebrated midcentury-modern architect’s idea was that steel was the best material for building in a desert.