The northern Maine hideaway rests on piers above the forest floor and employs broad windows to frame the homeowner’s most prized...

As a buzzing seaside town known for its bohemian spirit, lively boardwalk, funky boutiques, and picturesque canals, Venice Beach...

Surrounded by verdant trees and shrubs, a family home settles gently into its natural environment.

Sitting on a stretch of private beach on the Long Island Sound, this newly-renovated hotel is a throwback to its nautical...

Pirinen Salo Oy looks to church architecture and the illusions of cinema to craft an inspirational lakeside retreat.

After Hurricane Sandy destroyed the Rockaway boardwalk, Claire Weisz of architecture firm WXY imagined a new public space for New...

A laser-cut, aluminum silhouette of the Golden State’s official flower punctuates this Venice, California home and catches the...

By popular demand, a young couple resurrect the adored Fergie’s Cafe at their riverside resort in British Columbia, imbuing it...

The couple who own the house filled their outdoor space with winding paths and fragrant plants.

The slatted-wood structures and their network of boardwalks are arranged to preserve a surrounding pine forest.

Booking.com just opened reservations for the “Sand”-sion—a life-size sandcastle in the midst of all the fun at Coney Island’s...

We can only imagine all the fun these designers must be having at home.

Ah, the Golden State! From the mountains to the ocean, these California homes take modern architecture and design to the next...

A series of elemental cabins perch right on the water in the Chiloé Archipelago.

In an unusual collaboration among birds, wind, and one of San Francisco’s leading landscape architects, a California designer...

Daniel Kaplan of Bowerbird Architects raises a dwelling’s downstairs ceilings and relocates the living spaces to glory in natural...

Incorporating concrete, glass wood, and steel, a house in Malibu stands up to its challenging site.

Sunken in the earth and topped with native grass, this low-slung concrete home lets the landscape rule.

Six weeks after moving from a “gorgeous custom house with huge gardens” in a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, into an apartment a...

If not for the dawn appearance of the bear, which came loping toward Maem Slater-Enns and her then six-month-old daughter as they...

Two idiosyncratic Andrew Geller structures get a new lease on life as part of a modern-day family compound designed by Hamptons...

Designed by Sala Architects, Metal Lark Tower is the first cabin to open at Nordlys Lodging, a 140-acre property where nature...

Designer Anda Andrei’s latest work proves that Asbury Park has come a long way from the Boss’s down-and-out beach town.

Building a small home doesn’t equate to easy lifting.

Step into the morning ritual of Bay Area architect Ryan Leidner.

A raised boardwalk connecting the units enhances the owners’ favorite walking path on their parcel of wilderness in Nova Scotia.

A contemporary residence makes the most of its one-of-a-kind landscape.

This home is teeming with bespoke elements and views of the water from every room.

A series of compact cabins that include a Japanese-inspired bath house keep a multigenerational family connected in the woods.

Nestled within the marshlands of the Peconic Estuary, the wood-clad dwelling is just down the street from Jackson Pollock’s...

The 1913 Craftsman occupies a prime spot in the heart of Abbot Kinney’s original Venice of America.

Marcel Wilson harnessed an underground water source to create a lush marshland in his garden.

This weekend getaway on a reserve in central Chile is just 580 square feet, but the entire forest is its living room.

Melissa and Jacob Brillhart constructed the home’s frame in their Miami backyard, before disassembling it and shipping it to the...

Built in 1967, the cedar-and-glass residence features dramatic, barrel-vaulted ceilings that extend to an oceanfront deck.

Jake and Meredith are what some might call a power couple in the film and production world.