Sarah Rich

As we enjoy/endure the hottest day of the year so far in San Francisco, sitting at our desks dreaming of swimming pools, in comes...

We've started to get some great submissions for the design phase of our Innovate It competition.

In our June 2009 issue, we'll be running a concept feature that turns the taboo topic of toilets into a fascinating exploration...

For this installment of the Week in Review, the Dwell team found inspiration in the far reaches of the Web—from attachable...

Our friends over at Inhabitat have announced the winners of their Spring Greening Contest, which asked entrants to submit a...

Ten years ago, realtors wouldn't have guessed they'd be selling luxury apartments based on cotton insulation and dual-flush...

In our 2008 sustainability issue, we featured the Boulder residence of Rob Pyatt and Heather Kahn-Pyatt.

This week on Dwell.com we had some new modular architecture, a Q&A with Sebastian Wrong of Established & Sons, and a slideshow of...

The time has come, folks.

Attention, young designers! Here's a very cool opportunity from the Danish National Workshops for Arts and Crafts,...

In 1892, when John Muir founded the Sierra Club, the only "web" he knew about was the kind spun by spiders, and social...

If choosing paint colors doesn’t give you a headache, the fumes probably will—unless you pick from the growing array formulated...

This week with spring settling in, the Dwell editors took inspiration from flowers made of leather and wood, and architectural...

Design competitions are all the rage these days, with the Internet making it easy to gather and disseminate good ideas from...

If FEMA didn't drum up enough of a bad reputation with its immediate response to Hurricane Katrina, the nails certainly went into...

Today is the last day to enter a submission to phase one of Dwell's Innovate It! design contest.

Many an indoor planter has passed across the pixels of design blogs lately, always a clear symbol of sustainability, modern...

The Museum of Modern Art's Design Store has been running regionally-sourced collections in their retails shops and online.

This week the Dwell editors spotted gems from many corners of the blogosphere, from films about monsters to architecture for...

We'll surely never cease to marvel at the architectural feats humans accomplished long before the age of computers, but it's...

When I think of biomimicry—a smart, sustainable approach to design that mimics nature's forms and functions—I usually think of...

Between rising rates of independent and freelance careers and the many changes to corporate work policies that have accompanied...

Northern California's wine country has the advantage of built-in open space preservation by virtue of its indispensable...

Today begins Dwell.com's Friday round-up series, in which the editors take a look back at our week in Web-reading and call out a...

One of the best things about the Internet is the ability to virtually attend lectures we couldn't get to in real-time.

Ever wondered what it would be like to own a compact, green, mobile, prefab home? You will soon have a chance to find out.

Boston's rich history is potently infused into its dense, bustling neighborhoods, where the same brick walls that once contained...

If ever there were evidence that architectural innovation knows no limits, the Sliding House by London-based de Rijke, Marsh and...

At first glance I thought this chair was made from the rather hard and inhospitable charcoal-colored packing material that often...

Slovenian architect Bevk Perović's House R project is a modern inspiration in a region with a rich and ancient history, but it...

While the papa-san chair adds little to an interior besides nostalgic references to college crashpads, it's still a comfortable...

As designers embrace the idea of directing their skills toward doing good in the world, a collective of students and alumni from...

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

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...

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

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...