A 10-year project on the island of Milos culminates in a sunken residence shaped by a 19th-century math formula.

Dwell and Sausalito–based Heath Ceramics have more than a few things in common. We're both design-focused Bay Area companies.

Perfect for summer fetes, this spacious circular deck features striking inlay and a gently curved stair.

First, don't feel bad that you are not adequately prepared for this crisis—most of us aren't.

A husband-and-wife architect team transforms a 607-square-foot Manhattan apartment into an open and bright home for two graphic...

A brilliant blue core runs through all four floors of art consultant Priscilla Caldwell’s reworked townhouse in Cobble Hill.

Their designs are, well, lit.

Founded in 1968 to build A-frame homes for resort communities, Deltec has evolved to specialize in bringing quality,...

The creator of the beloved CD rug mixes business and pleasure, treating his own digs as a life-size vision board for his home...

“I've personally always been so drawn to color,” Van Dusen says. “And I'm, like, why? Why am I just like obsessed with this thing?

In rural Western Alabama, a student-led program evolves from building $20,000 homes to creating a blueprint for sustainable,...

Whether bankers or builders by trade, these dads of design have plenty of wisdom to share.

Welcome to our annual Money Issue, where compromises lead to creativity as we dig into what great design actually costs.

Small Change aims to allow anyone—not just developers—to invest in projects across the country.

The Southern California architect spun Frank Lloyd Wright’s philosophies into an iconoclastic body of work that includes the...

Anda and Jenny French of Boston architecture firm French 2D specialize in “strange” housing types where people can reconsider...

Never one to take things too seriously, the cofounder of Los Angeles firm Shin Shin turns her childhood toys into watermarks.

Recently I had the idea of asking a well-placed, well-respected web designer who understands the vagaries of design, branding,...

We’ve got a springy bathmat and a great deal on rugs.

Design-build firm Spot Lab reimagine an old 980-square-foot corner unit with birch-plywood built-ins for the family’s home...

In Galileo’s day, men counted their pulses to tell time.

Properly lighting your home may seem like a no-brainer, but once you start laying out the particulars—budget, style, function,...

As an architect, industrial designer and writer, Emily Pilloton realized it wasn't enough to talk about design that made a...

Happy May 6th to you all.

Aside from that mischievous caveperson in France who used a piece of charcoal to draw a line around some stick figures that...

Culled from art and design schools across the world, these top-notch student projects earned a spot on our honor roll.

Saul Griffith knows how to deliver grim planetary outlooks with irreverent humor.

Can you name just one influential female architect?

Through her company littleBits, MIT-trained engineer Ayah Bdeir turns humble objects into remote-controlled, Internet-connected...

Designer Lisa Carolla streamlines her space for post-beach bites, communal cooking, and everyday living in Encinitas.

Production designer Adam Stockhausen discusses the meticulous detail that went into crafting the desert outpost, and creating a...

In essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection, profoundness in nature and valuing authenticity...

Big-thinker Daniel H. Pink has quickly established himself as an authority on the rapidly-transforming concept of work, and along...

New York real estate developers Vivian Liao and Tucker Reed of TOTEM want you to want affordable housing in your neighborhood.

The union of great design and high technology has given us a whole new generation of time pieces, proving once and for all that...

If you live in a large metro like we do, odds are you see mostly bleak-hued buildings. Lots and lots of buildings.