Architect Hiroshi Iguchi’s Millennium City is an experiment in communal, sustainable living.

Balnarring Retreat is a minimal residence located in Victoria, Australia, designed by Branch Studio Architects.

Bizna Estudio combines passive house principles with a few regional materials to keep one family cool while on vacation.

The Louis Kahn–trained architect and lifelong tinkerer tells us about the tools he can’t work without.

On a narrow site in Western Australia, Mountford Architects makes the most of a tight spot—with an eye to the future.

These technology companies have developed new gadgetry for the body and the mind—from eating well with ease to learning to...

Also hear from Priya Patel and Esther Beke of Brooklyn-based interior design firm 4|MATIV, who are on a mission to make school...

Completed in six short months, ZeroCabin Krul is a self-sufficient getaway near the Andes mountains and the Patagonian fjords.

Gadgets that promise greater convenience all too often deliver headaches.

From modern sheds and tiny cabins to detached dwellings, we're spotlighting our favorite small spaces from the Dwell community...

The architecture firm superkül and home builder Great Gulf create a prefab with a self-regulating indoor climate.

Architect Lloyd Russell’s design for this desert getaway passively mitigates the elements with a utilitarian solution, turning a...

A set of solar panels, a wind-powered well, and passive sustainable strategies make living miles from municipal utilities a...

Like a little chapel on the prairie, architect Jean-Baptiste Barache’s simply elegant retreat in the tiny Normandy town of...

Burglary borrows equally from the skill sets of a technical science and theatrical improv; it follows careful rules yet just as...

The 409-square-foot Highlands retreat combines clay with locally felled Douglas fir, which was used for everything from...

It seems that everyone is vying for a bit of exposed brickwork.

Hats off to Taiwanese architect Hseih Ying-Chun for winning the Curry Stone Design Grand Prize and taking home the $100,000 grant.

Set in Cadaqués, the ’60s residence has a traditional stone facade and a surprising, hexagonal plan—with no right angles in sight.

An architect reimagines Colombo-Colonial architecture, creating a descending space plan and a “leaf-like” roof for only $100,000.

The rusted red corrugated-steel canopy that covers Jim Austin’s home at Rimrock Ranch is visually striking in its desert...

An undulating wall made from over 40,000 dowels adds a dose of awe to a Massachusetts loft.

Of note this week in New York was the announcement of the finalists in the Young Architects Program, the competition that...

Hé Architectuur redesigned an industrial building with plaster made of dirt, straw insulation sourced from hay bales, and plenty...

Most prefab manufacturing facilities house loads of heavy machinery, but not every design must be constructed on the factory line.

"Makers with Ph.Ds stood next to makers from the side of the road - it is not about who you are or where you come from, but what...

John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong Arndt named their studio after the made-up word “gorm,” an invented antonym to the real word...

The Lighthouse, by British architects Sheppard Robson, seeks to redefine the future of residential energy by plugging into the...

Native California plants abound in this tiny oasis designed to maximize diversity.

Whether you love midcentury modern or are (still) obsessed with checkerboard everything, we found some smart gadgets that’ll mesh...

There’s a fine art to getting you to gape—one that shop-window designers of all stripes must learn.

As Volvo crash-test engineer Laura Thackray knows, dummies—even virtual ones—can teach us a thing or two about safety.

Rescued from its long tenure as the home of processed snacks, the vending machine is enjoying a moment of unprecedented glitz.

Tucked away in a quiet residential neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, is a new player on the local scene that has become the...

Taking a calculated turn from tradition, two Czech architects designed a modern rendition of a classic Bohemian home, powered by...

A chef helped hand-cast the biomaterial for his home’s extension, which uses a suite of healthy, low-carbon products.