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On a lot nobody, particularly the city of Baton Rouge, could love, architect David Baird created an oasis for his family and his...

When we first visited Beat Schenk and Chaewon Kim two years ago, they were in the process of building the second house on what...

One of Portland, Oregon’s, up-and-coming neighborhoods can thank a modern reinterpretation of a previously decrepit building for...

Coffee shop and bakery owner Greg Martin kept baker’s hours to whip this chimerical Minneapolis building into a modern confection.

In Los Angeles, California, a family of four inhabits a polychrome fantasia in the heart of Chinatown.

When a Japanese couple asked architects Takaharu and Yui Tezuka to design a small home that would evoke the Italian love of food,...

When separating the haves from the have-nots, owners of summer homes tend to reside enviably in the former category.

All of the money Barbara Hill poured into remodeling her 1960s condo in Houston was spent taking things out—and she couldn’t be...

It was no exodus, of course, but when Kathleen Triem quit her job at a Manhattan design firm in July 1996, her associates were...

When Im and David Schafer moved in together they faced the challenge of combining the contents of David’s 880-square-foot loft...

Blessed with an enviable site on the sylvan shores of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington state, architect Anthony...

With a little faith and a lot of foresight, Keisha Martin entrusted Laura Briggs and Jonathan Knowles to revitalize a derelict...

In the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, architect Rytis Mikulionis spent several years property hunting for his first nesting...

Among the many problems of urban living in Portland, Oregon, are raccoons, deer, and falling trees.

Although postwar California modernism is generally associated with Southern California, the Bay Area’s own tradition has begun in...

Well, the London Eye has done it: Singapore has its own giant Ferris wheel, as does Nanchang and as of December 20th of last year...

As likely to host the sending of emails as the serving of entrees, today’s dining table needs to be set for anything.

For years, Eileen and Jelle Kiesling spent much of their time in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, she as a teacher, and he as a...

In Vieira do Minho, a small village in northern Portugal, Guilherme Vaz designed a fortresslike retreat that embraces the natural...

Most beachfront houses treat the ocean as part of the visual landscape with panoramic views and wraparound balconies.

In Houston, where bigger means better and suburbanites in SUVs dominate the highways, architects Dawn Finley and Mark Wamble are...

In Galileo’s day, men counted their pulses to tell time.

Linden Hills, a leafy neighborhood in southwest Minneapolis abutting recreational Lake Calhoun, is a spot where few fences divide...

It’s become an all-too-familiar scenario all across America: A city’s downtown, once a thriving place to live and work, has...

In Talca, Chile, over 50 wine barrels started a second life in 2006—though neither as planters nor avatars.

Santiago Suarez is a man who craves challenge, a knight errant, if you will, whose exploits are in the realm of the intellectual...

The house at 157 Congress Run in the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming was a fine little place, a sturdy 1940s brick Cape with trim,...

Judged by contemporary design standards, the typical postwar suburban split-level house has little to recommend it. Usually...

Designer Jennifer Siegal’s own house is a modest 1920s Spanish bungalow on the leeward side of busy Lincoln Boulevard in Venice,...

Canada's Magdalen Islands offer a seaside retreat to landlocked Quebecers, two of whom have turned the local vernacular on its...

Just as the famed Treaty of 1814 called for peace between the United Kingdom and the United States, the large beech tree on...

The super's unit was anything but in this Upper West side co-op, however architect Brad Zizmor saw potential in the apartment...

Joe Osae-Addo, a highly gregarious, Ghanaian-born architect, was living in Los Angeles, designing buildings and acting as the...

When David Carmel decided to propose to Kirsten Axelsen, he was at home in Manhattan and she was in Ethiopia, working to...

Mike McDonald, an Oakland, California–based builder, faced a common problem for Bay Area homeowners: an aesthetically pleasing,...

For photographer Ed Reeve, building his own house had been a lifelong dream.