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Dwell June 2008, Vol. 08 Issue 07: Renovate It!

Modern Homes With Old Bones

RENOVATE...

Openshop|Studio’s design for a hivelike structure in the middle of a Brooklyn loft creates a chrysalis of comfort for a couple...

Any way you slice it, toast makes the most of any loaf.

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

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

Architect Piers Taylor's renovation of an old gameskeeper's cottage, complete with a castellated roof and sweeping meadow below,...

In the lofty Amsterdam apartment of Texas-born Hunter Hindman and Shelby Carr, mid-century modern mixes freely with contemporary...

A house that survived the Great Quake and the intervening decades is reborn after a serious intervention by a modernist architect.

When Architect Qingyun Ma became dean of architecture at the University of Southern California in January 2007, he came to the...

Looolo—When we think about products and their life cycles, textiles aren’t the first things that come to mind.

It could have been a Sheetrock box, but as the house’s most frequently used point of entry, it deserved the same architectural...

I am looking at my favorite photograph of my summer house in Nantucket. It is not a particularly pretty picture.