Highly Sod After In southwest Poland, architect Robert Konieczny, of KWK Promes, raises the roof—with sod intact—on Jacek Perkowski’s modernist...
Like a Rock When it comes to great product design, the material is often the message. Matuse’s wetsuits prove why.
Product Developments We asked three product designers from three different fields what the future holds. Oddly, none of them mentioned crystal balls.
Buyer Beware Bad design can be not just unattractive but unhealthy. Steer clear of this trio of second-rate offerings.
Best Buy Good design isn’t inextricably wed to a high price tag. These classic designs run the gamut of types and prices.
An Introduction to Product Design Last night I went to a corner liquor store to buy some toothpaste.
Books You Should Read Words You Should Know The High Life Tired of being terrestrially housebound? Four homes go out on a limb and find their place in the trees.
Alaska: The Final (Architectural) Frontier “I always wanted to live in a glass house,” explains Valerie Phelps, as she stands surrounded by the 40 feet of floor-to-ceiling...
Branching Out Arborsculpturist Richard Reames has spent the past 16 years making more than 100 sculptures, chairs, pieces of furniture, tool...
No Grid in Sight Most deserts are dry and dusty expanses of blue skies, bleached soil, and rulerflat horizons.
Where Pigs Fly Those looking for a more down-to-earth option might consider wallowing in a pigsty, which is essentially what designer Amir Sanei...
By Poplar Demand “I kept pushing the idea of doing a new kind of tree house further and further, trying to find the best structure, the best...
Suspended Habitation “This was really a parameter-driven project,” explains Lukasz Kos, a Toronto-based designer and cofounder of the architecture...
Wooler Mills House The first misconception about going solar is that it is expensive.
Greased Lightning Thirty years from now, there will be no more oil.
Click Appeal House hunting isn’t just about roving the streets and stopping at For Sale signs anymore; instead, prospective buyers will spend...
Foreclosure The popular myth is that foreclosures can provoke ire in sellers and bad karma for buyers, but this is rarely the case.
Probate Sale When the owner of a home dies without a will or trust to allocate their estate, the property goes into probate.
Co-op “It is really different from anything else,” explains David Burcher, who bought a co-op apartment in Manhattan with his partner,...
Tenancy-in-Common You’ve heard it thousands of times on TV, the radio, and in junk mail—spurious ads delivered with forehead-vein-popping...
Halving It All David Sarti’s little red house in Seattle’s sleepy Central District proves that a bit of land, ambition, and carpentry know-how...