We Designed and Built a Custom Headboard and WFH Station for Just $865
What started out as a design challenge for my boyfriend and me turned into a DIY project that fully reshaped our space.
Budget Breakdown: This Modular Cabin in Chile Cost Just $51 Per Square Foot
Max-A Arquitectura builds a lakeside holiday home for less than $160K.
A Revamped Penthouse Loft Hits the Market at $2.9M in Boston, MA
Perched in a converted warehouse downtown, the sun-filled pad boasts 17 windows and six skylights.
Budget Breakdown: A Color-Changing House in Dallas Is Built for $584K
LED strips embedded in a polycarbonate wall allow one couple to change the mood of their new home.
This £860K Midcentury in the English Countryside Is Filled With Leafy, Green Spaces
The four-bedroom Hertfordshire home is set within the Grade II-listed Cockaigne Housing Group, just a 25-minute train ride from...
Budget Breakdown: A Tired ’80s Home in Japan Gets a Bright Remodel For $164K
Additional windows and open shelving help Suita House in Osaka feel airy and modern.
A Shipping Container Penthouse Lists for $995K in New York City
Formerly a mechanical room and overhauled by LOT-EK, the Manhattan pad recasts a 20-foot shipping container as an upstairs...
An Abandoned Warehouse Makes Way For a Breezy Ibiza Retreat
The Nieuw turns a dilapidated workshop and storage building in the northern hills of Ibiza, Spain, into an off-grid guesthouse...
The Midcentury Home That Daniel Liebermann Built For His Parents Asks $2.8 Million
Architect Daniel Liebermann, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s renowned pupils, made a lasting impact on Northern California’s...
An Outdated Swiss Chalet Is Treated to a Playful New Look
Four sections, four levels, and four doors and windows enable this remodeled 1960s cabin to fully embrace its idyllic natural...
16 Ultimate Joshua Tree Airbnbs Starting at $130 a Night
Replenish your spirit in one of these impressive desert retreats.
This Tiny A-Frame Cabin Is Available for Less Than $20K
Mounted on a portable trailer, the prefab Bivvi Cabin promises maximum off-grid adventure with a minimal footprint.
An 860-Square-Foot Tiny Home Becomes a Summer Haven For a Family of Five
Nestled near Lake Michigan, a family finds peace and relaxation in the form of an off-grid tiny home.
They Updated a 1980s Ray Kappe Beach House—With the Architect’s Approval (and Advice)
Upsizing from a small bungalow, Kristopher Dukes and Matt Jacobson took a minimalist approach to renovating a soaring Manhattan...
This Minimalist, Solar-Powered Home Is a True Desert Oasis
Designed to amplify connections with the desert, a low-lying courtyard house nestles into the landscape.
A 200-Year-Old German Farmhouse Gets a Quirky, Glass-Fronted Addition
Three whitewashed volumes deliver daylight and improved functionality to a creative family’s historic home in Essen.
See How This Compact Home in Vietnam Makes the Most of 194 Square Feet
Along a cul-de-sac in the densely populated Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh City, a 194-square-foot plot slotted tightly between...
The Chicago Preservation Architect Behind Several Modernist Landmarks Wants His Work to Be Invisible
Thomas “Gunny” Harboe discusses his approach to restoring modern masterpieces like Mies van der Rohe’s 1951 Lake Shore Drive...
Budget Breakdown: This $865K Coastal Dwelling Is So Much More Than a Starter House
For the price of a Bay Area fixer-upper, a young architect builds a fire-resistant home where he can live, work, and surf.
A Skinny Brooklyn Townhouse Stacks Spaces for Living, Working, and Entertaining
Motorcycles, a music studio, and more find their homes on the tiered floors of a renovation in Red Hook.
Barrel-Vaulted Ceilings Cap an Architect’s Off-Grid Retreat in Mexico
Architect Fernanda Canales’s self-sufficient vacation home blends into a wild and remote landscape in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
How an Unsung Architect Gave Big Sur Its Look
A remembrance was held last week after the passing of Mickey Muennig, the architect who imbued California’s mystic coastline with...
10 Shipping Container Homes You Can Buy Right Now
Shipping containers make sturdy shells for these ready-to-buy, prefabricated homes.
My House: Architect Ester Bruzkus’s Irresistibly Playful Berlin Loft
Ester Bruzkus works her magic on a top-floor apartment in Prenzlauer Berg, going all out with colors, textures, and materials.
The Principles of Midcentury Design Endure at This Modernist Home in Maine
In 1959, Philip M. Isaacson, a young lawyer, commissioned fellow Harvard alum, architect F. Frederick Bruck, to design him and...
A Modern Prefab Addition to a Midcentury California Classic
A 1950s Joseph Esherick home in Berkeley, California, inspires an addition that pays homage to the past yet is poised to host the...
Peek Inside Annie Leibovitz’s Upper West Side Apartment, Now Listed for $8.6M
The legendary photographer purchased the Central Park property for $11.3M in 2014—and now it’s “priced to sell,” according to the...
When Life Gave Them an Oddly Shaped Lot, a Young Family Made a Superbly Skinny 868-Square-Foot Home
On a petite parcel sandwiched between buildings in Osaka, Japan, a slender house with a series of split levels fits five people...
The Best Things We Saw at Milan Design Week 2018
See highlights from Salone del Mobile and beyond.
The Best New E-Bikes Are Smart, Stylish, and a Blast to Ride
If you think electric bicycles are clunky and ugly, it’s time to take another look.
A Case Study Architect’s Ultimate Modernist Sample Gets Remastered by a DJ
Edward Killingworth’s 1957 Opdahl House in Long Beach, California, had fallen into ruin when a musician with a passion for...
European Plants Generate Energy—and Pride—from Waste
With Europe leading the way, waste-to-energy plants are turning an unlikely resource—garbage—into electricity.
Inspecting Gadgets
These days, a growing number of gizmos contain both a cell phone and a PDA.
In “The Queen of Versailles Reigns Again,” an Unfinished Megamansion Is Not a Home
The follow-up to a deft documentary that made a couple building the largest single-family home in America seem human—even...
In England, a Supremely Extra Egyptian-Inspired Home Seeks £2.5M
Overlooking the Thames River, the vibrant residence was designed by British architect John Outram in 1999.

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