A warehouse in Austria is transformed into a futuristic loft apartment with a striking, sculptural concrete staircase.

A new book seeks to answer the eternal question: “Why do bad guys live in good houses?”

Most often found in historic renovations, arched details and pathways bring a trace of the past into modern homes, while...

Modernist beach homes offer more than just close proximity to the ocean—their clean, bold designs and abundance of natural light...

Supported by teak wood pillars, this permeable home in Villamil, Ecuador, takes advantage of a coastal climate.

Commissioned by businessman Jack Perry in 1967, the Teesdale House is the only post-war British home by the Hungarian-born...

Raised on stilts to create a sheltered gathering space, Mountain House in Mist is a public library in China’s Zhejiang Province.

Three former animal sheds take on new life as minimalist retreats in the tiny, rural village of Ferraria de São João in Portugal.

The new LOKALT line of housewares features expressive designs from Jordan, Thailand, and India.

An Auckland architect switches up the formula on the Victorian villas that populate his neighborhood.

Three friends on a tight budget transform a desert site into a charming Airstream oasis.

From the neighborhood bodega to a dilapidated motorcycle shop, these once disused buildings were given a new life, thanks to...

On an island 20 miles off the coast of Maine, a writer, with the help of his daughter, built not only a room but an entire green...

An upcoming exhibit honors the soon-to-be-departed social housing mid-rise and Brutalist icon.

A modern eccentric with an architectural sensibility drawn from ancient Japanese traditions, Terunobu Fujimori designs projects...

“Beginners,” a new film by Mike Mills starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, and Melanie Laurent, takes place in the Los...

A glass-and-concrete mountainside lair is fit for a Bond villain with a penchant for stunning Alpine views.

William McDonough + Partners’ design for a small village in northeastern China was meant to stand as a model for sustainable...

We were already big fans of Barcelona–based designer Nani Marquina, but now that we hear she helped reopen a shuttered school for...

An elegant dome-topped home is topped only by its stunning panoramas.

When it comes to leisure at its namesake Wisconsin vacation complex, the kitchen and bath brand means business.

Inspiring Icons / Ruth Asawa

Be they medieval torches blazing on battlements or bug zappers crackling to life with each new victim, the need for outdoor...

Sit back and get ready for a grand tour of some of the best cabins in The Americas, courtesy of our friends at The Cabin...

I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Plastics.

After suffering a terrorist attack in 2014, Ngarannam is now celebrating the opening of its new village, a project by the UNDP...

Greening Los Angeles has long been Andy Lipkis’s dream. Greening his nonprofit’s Hollywood Hills campus is now a reality.

I recently talked over the phone with Kyle Schuneman, interior and set designer of Live Well Designs in Los Angeles.

Including stylish strand board spaces, repurposed shipping containers, and offices that get fresh with mesh.

I saw Atom Egoyan's new film Chloe this weekend, and though it was something of a stinker (only those deeply committed to...

Linden Hills, a leafy neighborhood in southwest Minneapolis abutting recreational Lake Calhoun, is a spot where few fences divide...

It is possible that in the depths of Hades, the devil indeed sits on a baroque throne made from the horns of endangered species,...

There’s a thriving collector scene for these towns—which come in increasingly modern themes—and reason to believe younger...

Rick Doblin started the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies from the Arcturus, the home he built in the Florida...

Surely, there’s nothing sinister behind all those sliding glass doors…right?