After three years of legal wrangling, a Raleigh couple find peace in their modern dream home.

“I used to care about how buildings looked on the outside,” says Malcolm Wells, a charming, self-deprecating man with a bushy...

Toronto designers Peter Fleming and Debbie Adams found a polluted lot and a run-down building—and saw fertile ground for a...

Lauren and Van Jones turn a school bus into a vibrant and practical home on wheels for their family in Birmingham, Alabama.

A major market for our furniture, and the headquarters of some of our most important designers, Manhattan has long been Herman...

It was no exodus, of course, but when Kathleen Triem quit her job at a Manhattan design firm in July 1996, her associates were...

Each week, we tap into Dwell's Instagram community to bring you the most captivating design and architecture shots of the week.

Wide-open spaces, welcoming attitudes, and a healthy respect for modernism—the American Midwest has much to offer.

It took a small army of contributing writers and photographers to bring the stories in our first-ever entertaining issue, Open...

For this West Hollywood abode, designer Mandy Cheng was directed to create the “luxe version of Leonard Cohen in Greece.”

When artists Ramona Trent and Anthony Pearson teamed up with architects Escher GuneWardena for a full-scale renovation, they...

The residents of Midland, Michigan, are leading the charge to document their community’s unique architectural history.

Couldn’t make it to Helsinki Design Week? No need for FOMO—here’s what caught our eye this year.

Has your home office been working overtime? It's time to give it a promotion.

Architect Robert Swinburne deploys a collaborative building approach and hyperlocal materials to craft a home that celebrates the...

In a forested suburb of Cape Town, four cylinders make a tower-like hideout on a businessman’s family estate.

Whether your budget is $10,000 or $200,000, this roundup of modular home prices in your area puts prefab within reach.

While the English word ruin comes from the Latin "ruina"—meaning “destruction” or “downfall”—ruins can be the literal and...

In the remote village of Longtan in Anhui Province, China, RSAA / Büro Ziyu Zhuang transforms a ramshackle ruin into an...

Stone, concrete, and walnut come together to create this elegant abode in Urbino.

A new outlook for a Buff, Straub and Hensman gem perched high above Los Angeles.

With a green roof that merges with the grassy ground, this family home in Belgium looks like two periscopes rising up from the...

With little time to waste, an Australian firm erects an efficient prefab overlooking the ocean.

Equipped with 25 years of experience designing bathrooms, Melbourne–based GIA Bathrooms & Kitchens gives us the scoop on how to...

Built in 1844, this 2,700-square-foot house—which once belonged to a town miller—is transformed into a modern family home with...

Inspired by brutalism and the industrial heritage of Camperdown, this apartment for two design professionals evades warehouse...

From a smokeless fire pit to a headlamp that’s actually chic, BioLite has spent years upping the standard for outdoor gear.

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The stately, 179-year-old townhouse in Chelsea played Elaine Benes’s residence on the ’90s show.

Case in point: the magenta entry and cobalt blue carpet.

With Europe leading the way, waste-to-energy plants are turning an unlikely resource—garbage—into electricity.

Inspired by Japanese ryokans and American coastal communities of the ’70s, an architect’s tranquil retreat embraces the wild.

The Phoenix residence draws inspiration from the Sonoran Desert and the stately cacti.

Helsinki-based company Pluspuu offers 11 customizable models of modern log homes and sauna cabins that start at $18,000.

Wrapped around a mature oak tree, a light-filled shipping container home embraces the outdoors in more ways than one.