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From the Archive: What It’s Like to Live in a Neutra—Two of Them

From the Archive: What It’s Like to Live in a Neutra—Two of Them

A Pivot Toward Light

A Pivot Toward Light

A Deck Designed for Connection

A Deck Designed for Connection

My House: This Wildly Colorful Vancouver Home Was Designed Like a Shoe

My House: This Wildly Colorful Vancouver Home Was Designed Like a Shoe

Timeless Texture

Timeless Texture

An Artist Lets the Wind and Wildlife of Oaxaca Flow Through Her Radically Open Home

An Artist Lets the Wind and Wildlife of Oaxaca Flow Through Her Radically Open Home

In Toronto, an Indigenous Women’s Emergency Shelter Provides a Safe Haven to Recover

In Toronto, an Indigenous Women’s Emergency Shelter Provides a Safe Haven to Recover

This Mexican Prefab Cabin Avoids Clichés While Framing Nature

This Mexican Prefab Cabin Avoids Clichés While Framing Nature

This Rooftop Greenhouse Is the Ideal Work-From-Home Space for a Plant-Loving Uruguayan Couple

This Rooftop Greenhouse Is the Ideal Work-From-Home Space for a Plant-Loving Uruguayan Couple

A Record Label Cofounder Cues Up a Second Take for a Hollywood Hills Midcentury

A Record Label Cofounder Cues Up a Second Take for a Hollywood Hills Midcentury

A Designer Builds a Home With a Rooftop Hot Tub on His Parents’ Ranch in Guatemala

A Designer Builds a Home With a Rooftop Hot Tub on His Parents’ Ranch in Guatemala

A Renowned Artist’s L.A. Renovation Added a Distinct Facade—and Kicked Off a Much Bigger Project

A Renowned Artist’s L.A. Renovation Added a Distinct Facade—and Kicked Off a Much Bigger Project

Construction Diary: With $293K, Two Designers Make a Rhode Island Victorian Their Own

Construction Diary: With $293K, Two Designers Make a Rhode Island Victorian Their Own

Striking Ceramic Screens Take a Cramped Madrid Townhouse From Dark to Delightful for $309K

Striking Ceramic Screens Take a Cramped Madrid Townhouse From Dark to Delightful for $309K

Once Made for Mail, It’s Now for Your Golden Years

Once Made for Mail, It’s Now for Your Golden Years

A Restaurateur From Seattle’s “First Family of Phở” Crafts Her Dream Kitchen for Hosting

A Restaurateur From Seattle’s “First Family of Phở” Crafts Her Dream Kitchen for Hosting

How a Colorado Couple Rehabbed an Abandoned Hacienda in the Yucatán Jungle

How a Colorado Couple Rehabbed an Abandoned Hacienda in the Yucatán Jungle

Why Everyone Looks Forward to This New York Architect’s Lunar New Year Dumpling Parties

Why Everyone Looks Forward to This New York Architect’s Lunar New Year Dumpling Parties

How TikTok Is Changing the Building Trades

How TikTok Is Changing the Building Trades

This Multigenerational Home Near Carmel Is a Slice of Prefab Paradise

This Multigenerational Home Near Carmel Is a Slice of Prefab Paradise

A Brutalist Behemoth Left Deserted for Decades Comes Back to Life for €102K

A Brutalist Behemoth Left Deserted for Decades Comes Back to Life for €102K

Is GoFundMe the New Insurance?

Is GoFundMe the New Insurance?

A Dated Flat in a Building by None Other Than Le Corbusier Gets a Reverent Refresh

A Dated Flat in a Building by None Other Than Le Corbusier Gets a Reverent Refresh

Budget Breakdown: For $31K, a Brooklyn Family Makes Room for All in an 850-Square-Foot Apartment

Budget Breakdown: For $31K, a Brooklyn Family Makes Room for All in an 850-Square-Foot Apartment

Construction Diary: 650 Square Feet Is Perfect for an Italian Couple and Their Three Cats

Construction Diary: 650 Square Feet Is Perfect for an Italian Couple and Their Three Cats

Soak in the Views

Soak in the Views

Pops of Color and a Concrete Cube Make This Argentina Retreat Like “a Ball Pit for Grown-Ups”

Pops of Color and a Concrete Cube Make This Argentina Retreat Like “a Ball Pit for Grown-Ups”

When Life Gave Them an Oddly Shaped Lot, a Young Family Made a Superbly Skinny 868-Square-Foot Home

When Life Gave Them an Oddly Shaped Lot, a Young Family Made a Superbly Skinny 868-Square-Foot Home

Why an Architect Keeps a Tiny Indian Temple Replica on His Desk—and Sometimes Uses It as a Pencil

Why an Architect Keeps a Tiny Indian Temple Replica on His Desk—and Sometimes Uses It as a Pencil

Take a Rare Look Inside an Ahead-of-Its-Time Home by Italian Architect Umberto Riva

Take a Rare Look Inside an Ahead-of-Its-Time Home by Italian Architect Umberto Riva

Nickelodeon’s “Luxury” Resort Courts Millennials With Nostalgia. Is It Working?

Nickelodeon’s “Luxury” Resort Courts Millennials With Nostalgia. Is It Working?

A Prewar Apartment in the “Only Murders in the Building” Building Gets a Screen-Worthy Renovation

A Prewar Apartment in the “Only Murders in the Building” Building Gets a Screen-Worthy Renovation

In Northern Michigan, a Geodesic Dome Offers Visitors an Escape Pod From Daily Life

In Northern Michigan, a Geodesic Dome Offers Visitors an Escape Pod From Daily Life

Budget Breakdown: A Seattle Couple Build Twin Backyard Offices for $51K—No Permit Required

Budget Breakdown: A Seattle Couple Build Twin Backyard Offices for $51K—No Permit Required

Before & After: A 450-Square-Foot Copenhagen Flat Now Hosts DJs, Art Openings, and Plenty of Friends

Before & After: A 450-Square-Foot Copenhagen Flat Now Hosts DJs, Art Openings, and Plenty of Friends

This Floating Sauna Brings a Touch of Scandinavia to Coastal Connecticut

This Floating Sauna Brings a Touch of Scandinavia to Coastal Connecticut

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