Top 5 Homes of the Week With Striking Exteriors
These visually arresting facades can't be accused of being boring.
What It’s Like to Live at Architect Miguel Angel Aragonés’s Museum-Like Mexico City Home
With a home for his own family, a Mexico City designer finds the fullest expression of his style.
Q&A: How “Beginners” Depicted the L.A. of Richard Neutra, Deco Hotels, and Spanish Bungalows
Writer/director Mike Mills and starring actor Ewan McGregor discuss how the 2011 film incorporated modernist designs like...
An Exposed Steel Skeleton Revived This 115-Year-Old Vancouver Home
The framework reinforces the wood-framed structure, which had been a rooming house and a hospital before being turned into a...
This $5.7M Cabin-Like Carmel Home Comes With a Slice of Paradise
Surrounded by soaring trees, the five-bedroom property includes a private waterfall, a creek, and access to Wildcat Beach.
In Houston, a Home on Stilts Overlooking “Mount Rush Hour” Seeks $1.5M
The house wraps around a 200-year-old pecan tree, and it has some unusual neighbors: gigantic busts of George Washington, Abraham...
This $2.8M Triangular Home in Austin Has Sharp Angles and a Point of View
The three-level, wood-clad residence comes with polished concrete floors, a tiled plunge pool, and a rooftop deck overlooking the...
Mayer Hawthorne Lists His Fine-Tuned Los Angeles Bungalow for $1.9M
The singer-songwriter-producer purchased the home in 2020 and queued up a pitch-perfect revamp.
Shut UP! The “Princess Diaries” Villa Is on Sale in San Francisco
Cast as Grove High School in the beloved film, the neoclassical home is currently listed for a royal sum of $6.5M—after a $2.4M...
The Corporations Quietly Buying Up Altadena
I combed through public records to uncover who’s been scooping up burned lots in and around the L.A. community—and it’s not your...
This $2M Long Beach Midcentury Is Surrounded by Six and a Half Acres of Green Space
Set in the gated enclave of Virginia Vista, the refreshed ’60s home is primed for indoor/outdoor living.
Live Outside the Box in This Artist’s Haven For $3.5M
The two units that make up the MuSh Residence offer plenty of studio, gallery, and outdoor space in a configuration that...
A Lawsuit Over Property Tax Assessments Reveals the Perils of Contracting Out Tech
Software provider Tyler Technologies has been accused of overvaluing properties in Missouri’s second-most populated county—and...
Buying a Prefab ADU Was Supposed to Be Easier Than This
Several builders are making promises they can’t keep—or never intended to—leaving buyers in the lurch and thousands of dollars...
Budget Breakdown: You’d Never Guess This Serene Family Home Was a Marijuana Grow House
After an ordeal with rogue tenants, Chlo Interiors had their work cut out for them as they removed vinyl vertical blinds, ’80s...
Housing in Crisis, Part II: Three Words for 'Boom"
The American house throughout the nation's history has represented grand concepts: success, strength of family unit, motivation...
Budget Breakdown: He Singlehandedly Gave a ’76 Airstream a Redwood Reinvention for $180K
Buena Vista Van Co founder David Horner puts his skills to the test as he kits out a vintage camper for full-time living in Santa...
The Opulent Modernism of Warren Platner
For the architect and interior designer, whose modernist pedigree would make any contemporary designer squeal, design was all...
From the Archive: Philip Johnson’s Glass House Gets a Restoration
In 2007, we wrote about the icon reopening to the public—and to public scrutiny.
Taylor Swift’s New Gig: Sophie Turner’s Landlord? And Other Celebrity Real Estate News
In our biweekly breakdown of what’s happening with famous people’s homes: A Barbara Walters estate sale will offer millions in...
Budget Breakdown: An Architect’s £224K Remodel Makes a Splash With Pastel Tile
Inspired by a David Hockney painting, Grant Straghan colors his London home in soothing tones of seafoam and rose.
Piegato Shelves
Folding furniture is often accused of being the worst of all resting places, associated as it is with the discomfort of cold...
Why I Still Believe Prefab Homes Are a Good Idea
More than 20 years after I first promoted the building method at Dwell, it has yet to live up to its promise—but it can.
The New King of England Hates Modern Design
King Charles III’s public criticisms of British modernism have had real, negative impacts on U.K. building projects.
Deinfluencing, “Anti-Hauls,” and the Dupe Decor Conundrum
A growing breed of social media users are dissuading their followers from buying into rapidly cycling micro-trends.
A New Generation of Earthship Owners Looks for Climate Solutions in the Past
Archetypes of 1970s utopian living, these self-determining homes in the desert have been embraced by a younger cohort eager to...